Word: shari
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fundamentalist," declared Prime Minister Mian Nawaz Sharif last week, but that did not stop him from introducing broad legislation to make strict Islamic law, or Shari'a, the "supreme law of Pakistan." Addressing a joint session of Pakistan's Senate and National Assembly, Nawaz Sharif outlined a legislative package that includes changes in the education and judicial systems and the restructuring of the economy along Islamic lines. The proposed legislation fulfills Nawaz Sharif's election promise to the small but powerful Islamic parties that helped him defeat Benazir Bhutto last October...
...baby, not a lobotomy!" Heightening the rivalry, some of those who gave up the fast track pursue full- time parenting with a competitive drive honed in the business world. "It's not O.K. to just have an average child; you must have an improved child," complains psychologist Shari Thurer, of Boston University...
...deal with Algeria's sagging economy. There is no guarantee that he can control the radicals, like those who took to the streets last week chanting, "Oh, Jews! The army of Muhammad will return!" And his party's aim to establish the Islamic legal code, known as the shari'a, conjures visions of public amputations. Middle- class women are particularly anxious: Madani has proposed that women be paid to stay home and not compete in the tight job market...
Third Period: 2, P, Sure Finney (Shari Wolkon, Eleanor Tydings) 17:00 (pp). Penalties--H, Sue Cullinane (hooking) 7:00 P, Lyndsay Rowan (tripping) 11:40; H, Stickles (interference...