Word: sula
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...timeless talk about rain, marriages and hardship had given way to the excitement of an epochal event: the country's first free elections. "We want the same things as the rest of Europe -- freedom to go where we like, to work hard and to secure our future," said Shaban Sula, 37, who works on a nearby collective farm. But in Mamuras, where Europe seems like a distant continent, his words betrayed a wistfulness born of generations of cultural and political isolation...
...Tirana, 4,200 workers toil on machines that have been in use since the 1940s, converting scrap metal into tractor parts. Now mass layoffs loom. Production and wages have been slashed for lack of raw materials. "We're terrified that we'll be left with no money," says Gezime Sula. Nevertheless, she supports the Democrats, even though an unbridled marketplace would almost certainly close the factory gates...
Soka University, the program's sponsor, is a Tokyo-based college of arts and sciences. It opened its Calabasas campus, known as Soka University, Los Angeles (SULA), as a language school in 1986. A new Soka University of America will begin operations in the near future...