The influence of hard-line clerical forces in Pakistan started growing in the time of President Zia ul-Haq (pictured), whose Islamist leanings didn't seem important in those cold war days when fighting the Soviet Union was the main priority.
The women of the title are Fereshteh and Roya, who meet as university students in Tehran and become fast friends in the tumultuous period of the Iranian revolution of the late 1970's, when factions dedicated to the clerical forces of the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini clashed with westernized intellectuals and liberals on campuses.
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TEACHERS COLLEGE FACULTY INSURED; Group System Provides Protection for More Than 600, Including Clerical Force.
A "major consequence" of the typewriter's development was the entrance of women into the clerical work force.
The breakdown of occupations is only analyzed in men, and showed a similar pattern in the men who had changed their place of residence and in those who had not, with 3 exceptions: those with "bookkeeping and clerical work", "armed forces", and those engaged in "production work" (see Table 2).
Progressives and clericals now joined forces.
On the other side of the city, at the Grand Bazaar, the merchants, a powerful force, traditionally allied to the forces of clerical conservatism, lament the high inflation but on the record are wary about offering a political view.
The parliament, alongside elements of the judiciary, armed forces and clerical establishment, strongly opposed making any meaningful concessions in the marathon negotiations, and is expected to seize on any perceived abuses by U.N. inspectors or Western powers in the coming months.
The computer revolution, however, displaced millions of workers from clerical and production occupations, forcing them to compete in lower-paying jobs in the retail, fast-food and home health sectors.
The commission noted also that at the time of the hearings the Philharmonic had no blacks in its clerical and administra tive force, and no black mem ber on its board of trustees.
