Word: pakistanis
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite the region's obvious vulnerability to such storms, Pakistani authorities were woefully ill prepared to cope with the newest catastrophe. No disaster plan was ready to be put into operation. Even after the Dacca Morning News carried a story headlined...
...champion match between Yusuf, who is an Indian, and Mohibullah, who is a Pakistani and lives in Boston, exhibited a brilliant display of talent and showmanship. The two professionals kept the audience laughing with conversation among themselves and with the judges, who were the targets of the players' friendly pokes...
...government in Pakistan at the time of the Harvard team's arrival there was in many ways the same as that of the recently departed British colonizers: undemocratic, elitist, institutionally repressive. In order to revive their stagnating economy, the Pakistani leaders had commissioned the Harvard group to shape up a five-year development plan and recruit an entire native planning staff; but the main impact of the team during this period was to facilitate the entrance of American aid into the country. This aid, part of a pact with the Pakistanis which John Foster Dulles had conceived...
...continued to work with him. It did not take issue with him because its subservient relationship with the Pakistani government imposed unbreakable obligations of loyalty and confidentiality. Why, then, did they not break off the project there and then? If they were any more meaningful than cabinet-level clerks, would they not have done so? And if the DAS amounts to no more than a collection of highly skilled technicians, are its activities in six foreign countries the proper place for men who should be concerned with the very broadest possible issues of development...
Schimmel's appointment, announced in June, brings the number of women holding full professorships at Harvard to two. She will assume a chair donated by the late A. K. Ozai Durrani, a Pakistani chiefly known as the inventor of Minute Rice...