Word: tiered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...home to the world's fifth largest Muslim population (after Indonesia, India, Pakistan and Bangladesh). Officials in Moscow are notably fearful that the currents of fervor sweeping Iran might cross the border and infect the Islamic populations of Azerbaijan, Turkmen and other republics on the Soviet Union's southern tier. More than half of the estimated 11 million people in China's huge western province of Xinjiang (Sinkiang) are Muslim; a heavy propaganda campaign against the "opiate of the masses" has failed to prevent the faithful from performing their daily rituals of prayer in private, away from the watchful eyes...
...also shrewd. "I don't advise anyone to take it up as a business proposition," she wrote of her chosen métier, "unless they really have talent, and are crippled so as to deprive them of physical labor. Then with help they might make a living. But with taxes and income tax, there is little money in that kind of art for the ordinary artist." Since then, thousands of painters have ignored Grandma Moses' advice, but not one has achieved her pitch of personal celebrity...
...indictments, and the continuing investigations, center on violations of the Government's six-year-old, two-tier price structure for domestic crude. This sets a low rate (now an average $5.65 per bbl.) for "old" oil already in production and, as an incentive for more exploration, a higher price (now $12.53) for "new" finds. The fraud involves false certification and sale of the cheaper "old" oil as expensive "new," an easy matter of fixing papers to hide origins, since all the crude looks the same...
DURING the opening number of the opening night performance of Not at the Palace, a hooded fellow made his way through the dark to the Charles Playhouse's first tier and surreptitiously took his seat. At first, only the devout, well-weathered theater goers noticed him, but as the program wore on, even the most uncultivated picked up on his being there. By evening's end, it was clear that it was the spectral presence of the ghost of that late, great form of entertainment, vaudeville, which had made the show. Yes, the program contained lively music, and a captivating...
...federation of four provinces, each of which has a formidable sense of regional identity. The largest (133,000 sq. mi.) and most turbulent of these jostling fragments is actually part of a tribal nation without defined borders, whose people also inhabit the eastern fringe of Iran and the southern tier of Afghanistan. This nation was literally quartered by the British map makers who brushed in arbitrary political boundaries during their heyday of 19th century imperialism. Like so much of this part of the world in the late 20th century, this "country" can no longer be ignored. Its name is Baluchistan...