Word: sabatical
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...communist who planned to turn the nation of sweatshops and banana plantations into a Soviet-style fortress. One of his worst crimes, allege the self-proclaimed patriots, was raising the minimum wage to $290 a month. "With this action, he declared war on business," says entrepreneur Jesus Sabat, 23, as he waves the nation's blue-and-white flag during the demonstration...
...phone hasn't stopped ringing at his family's home in Ludhiana, the busy industrial hub of Punjab. But the kudos is about more than Singh's impressive singing prowess; he has earned it by the fact that he is a keshdhari (turban-wearing) Sikh. "It is his sabat-surat [appearance conforming to the Sikh ideal] that has brought him where he is today," says his proud father Gurpinder Singh. "He has shown other Sikh boys that they don't need a trendy hairstyle to attain stardom." At a time when more and more young Sikh men are relinquishing...
...Even if you do agree with the ideas, you just don’t say that,” said Barbara M. Sabat...
...having that functionality is also appealing to people who have a more scientific or technical bent. But for some students on campus, Macs’ appeal is a little more aesthetic. “They’re just pretty,” said new Apple-owner Barbara M. Sabat ’07. “Macs are sexy.” Tod Hadley, a product sales employee of University Information Systems-Technology Services, said he thinks that Apple computers have partly become more popular because the computers are riding on the coattails of the popular iPod MP3 players...
...cabaret manager who hires Polish dancers: "They are better trained than Westerners, work longer and cost less." A four-man Prague dance band called Bob's Combo belts out tunes in English, German and even Japanese aboard the Royal Caribbean cruise liner Sun Viking. The Polish five-woman ensemble Sabat was performing aboard the Achille Lauro when the Italian cruise ship was hijacked by terrorists in 1985. Nightclubs from West Berlin to Los Angeles to Kuwait are staffed with Polish and Rumanian chorus girls, strippers and "hostesses...
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