Word: nigerian
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...effort to stem the outflow of funds, the Nigerian central bank two weeks ago ordered all 26 commercial banks in the country temporarily to stop processing or issuing import letters of credit and to cease approving applications for the conversion of Nigerian currency into foreign funds to pay for imports. Nigerian businessmen believe that their country will be forced to adopt still stricter import measures later this spring...
...government of President Shehu Shagari has belatedly taken some steps to curb spending and slow the runaway growth of the corrupt and bloated Nigerian bureaucracy. The Shagari government in December proposed a 12% cutback in government spending from 1981 levels. Additional austerity measures included the restrictions on the use of official cars by ministers and civil servants, a government-wide clampdown on foreign junketing, and a ban on unauthorized international telephone calls...
...foreigner who readily admits to being completely surprised by the level of Harvard athletics is Nigerian long jumper Gus Udo "Frankly, I was astonished," says Udo, who nearly chose a decidedly unathletic experience at the London School of Economics in stead of coming to Harvard. Facilities in Europe, where Udo went to secondary school, "are archaic compared to the ones here," he says adding that most European University have no full-time coaching staffs...
...times"-without it, most European culture up to about 1600 could fairly be called primitive. Above all, the word cannot mean crude or inarticulate. Few European medieval ivory carvings are as exquisitely realized, in detail and in the round, as the Met's ivory Bini mask of a Nigerian ruler; and the technical finesse of pre-Columbian gold ornaments, brought back by the conquistadors from South America, astonished Albrecht Dürer in the 16th century as much as it does us today...
...course, for the shouts of triumph coming from the ordinarily quiet community of Clemson in South Carolina, where people paint their faces with orange cat's feet. The Tigers' bowl performance gave them something to meow about, a persuasive blend of competent offense and elegant defense, and Nigerian David Igwebuike kicked in three field goals...