Word: ritualized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Muslims who are traveling get a special dispensation: they are required to pray only three times a day instead of the usual five. For seven days next month, however, one itinerant supplicant may find it difficult to perform the ritual of touching his forehead to the floor during prayers. As a "payload specialist" on the next voyage of the space shuttle Discovery, Saudi Prince % Sultan ibn Salman ibn Abdul Aziz al Saud, a nephew of King Fahd's, will help supervise the launch of Arabsat 1B, a communications satellite funded by 22 Arab countries. Says he: "My flight has great...
Indeed, the ritual of the graceful no is Ronald Reagan's virtuosity. He fired the air-traffic controllers on a beautifully sunny morning in the Rose Garden with a calm and injured tone in his voice. That action as much as any other in his first term established him as a leader to be reckoned with. To reduce the federal deficit, Reagan cut back funds for cities and states. Mayors and Governors denounced him at their conventions but also streamlined their regimes. A surprising number of them now have balanced budgets. Of course, they still complain about Reagan...
...Africa's white community, the 16% minority that rules a nation at once divided and single-minded. Over the course of the book, Van der Merwe and more than 30 other Wyndal residents vent their passions, explain their prejudices and in effect deliver their own eulogies. "We lack (tribal ritual) so terribly in our society," laments Peter Cooke, an English farmer, in confessing his envy of a nonwhite childhood friend. "We have no order. We drift about. We are lost...
...Sandinistas clearly felt that the public departure ritual was necessary to reassure Congress that the vote against contra aid was the right decision. For all its newfound enthusiasm concerning embargoes, the Administration is equally convinced that support for the rebels remains essential. As one of his last official acts last week Langhorne A. Motley, Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, declared that "the President still firmly believes in support for the freedom fighters." Motley, a former Alaska real estate developer who resigned in order to return to business, has had his . differences with both hard-liners and "ultra...
...countries. West German Chancellor Kohl's predecessor, Helmut Schmidt, in an often quoted reflection on the eight summits he attended, said that "they did not bring about much, but what they avoided was of enormous importance." At every summit, for example, the seven leaders renew what amounts to a ritual vow to uphold free trade and shun any turn toward protectionism. Those vows are never perfectly kept; every country has in fact taken protectionist action. But barriers to trade would probably have been raised much higher had it not been for the leaders' repeated public commitments...