Word: nairn
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Sponsors of the legislation, though, are convinced large price increases are unnecessary. "Poppycock," snorts McLean, adding that a report due to be released soon by Alan Nairn, a Ralph Nader employee, will show ETS is able to absorb the cost increases and a lot more. "We just don't believe they have any justification," Arty Malkin, a NYPIRG lobbyist, says. The Nairn report, five years in the writing, may also shed light on some other areas of the ETS operation, including some of the more basic questions about the adequacy of the exams...
...announcements by Radio Kabul in Persian and Pushtu were brief but to the point: tanks and infantry loyal to a "military revolutionary council" had surrounded the presidential palace in Afghanistan's capital. President Mohammed Daoud, 68, and his younger brother and political confidant, Mohammed Nairn, had been killed after they "madly" resisted the coup. A new regime was in control, led by Col. Abdul Kadir, 37, the air force chief of staff...
...obverse of this revolutionary perspective is a conservative world-view which underlies black nationalist ideology. Slavery, repression, and defeat have driven the black nationalist into a kind of "apartheid," which dangerously tends toward counter-revolutionary racial exclusiveness. As Tom Nairn, following E.P. Thomson, so judiciously observed of the British working class: "Such 'apartheid' was the necessary pre-condition of the conservative class-hierarchy. It was only the systematic fostering of this sense of irremediable and inherited difference, of social exclusion felt (even if not intellectually assented to) as a fact of nature. This was one of the most powerful weapons...
...this basically serious exercise in parody, Maclnnes adopts the young narrator-adventurer common to 18th century fiction. He is one Alexander Nairn, a pushy Scots lad but a bit of a Presbyterian prig. Alexander ships from Liverpool on a slaver carrying blacks from Africa on the final leg of their journey to West Indian sugar plantations...