Word: pariah
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...billion, the cost of pell-mell modernization was high; when the Shah left, Iran owed $7.2 billion to foreign lenders, including an estimated $2.2 billion to U.S. banks. Bankers point out that any attempt by Tehran to renege on those commitments would make the country an international financial pariah...
...most serious political problems of his presidency: his inability to lay claim to the unshakable support of any single constituency. Even though the legislative branch is filled with members of his own party, they received his speech with almost as little enthusiasm as they showed the pariah Richard Nixon in his last State of the Union message...
...welcome in Marrakesh, winter capital of King Hassan II, was noticeably less effusive. Hassan, fearful of provoking dissidents at home and angering radical Arab neighbors by consorting with a pariah, had reluctantly invited the Shah to visit him for a day or two of "conferences." The press was barred from covering the royal arrival, and the Shah was whisked off to a palatial but isolated guest house called Jinan al-Kabir (the big garden), hidden by orange, olive and date trees in the immense palm grove that surrounds Marrakesh. Moroccan officials were dismayed when the Shah arranged for his four...
...lives of D. C. superstars. It's not the talk of Joe Califano and his rooster pepper sausage, or the Rafshooning of America, or the latest a' deux in that little Georgetown cafe that makes the Washington Star's Ear so popular. It's the style, the "jolly pariah" attitude as Ear's creator Diana McLellan describes herself, the fast-paced staccato prose and irreverent wit that draws Ear's following...
...surprised at the blatant hypocrisy of Strom Thurmond in going after the black vote in South Carolina [Oct. 16] now that they have some power, or the naivete of the black voters who intend to support a man who, for most of his public career, considered them a political pariah. If the blacks in South Carolina truly seek justice, let them begin by distinguishing, on election day, between true concern and absolute cynicism...