Traditionally, more than 95% of cashmere from Ladakh has been used for barter with or sale to traders from the neighboring Kashmir region under a treaty with the erstwhile kingdom of Kashmir dating from 1684 (Rizvi 1999).
Its most recent replacement, "emerging economies", already seems out of date, as some erstwhile star performers, such as Argentina, submerge.
Desperate times call for desperate measures, because the next preview shows the erstwhile imp asking Charming for dating advice.
The former dental hygienist is thought to have begun dating the mobster and erstwhile FBI informer in the mid-1970s, but joined him on the run in early 1995 and was arrested with him in Santa Monica in 2011.
It happened to be the direct result of a blind date arranged by none other than Johnny Franco, his erstwhile prize pupil more than two decades earlier at Lafayette High in Brooklyn.
Wachovia sued erstwhile suitor Citigroup in federal court in New York on Sunday, winning a hearing date for Tuesday in its attempt to back out of a deal in principle struck last Monday under which Citi, working with the FDIC, was to pay $2 billion to buy Wachovia's deposits and assets and back its holding company debt.
Their resentments date to pre-oil desert wars among impoverished tribes that formed their erstwhile emirates around oases, tried to keep the British at bay, and scrapped for the region's then-meagre resources, such as pearls in the coastal waters of the Gulf.
"The erstwhile Spurs 'striker'?
Forbidden Phrases: "erstwhile" (use "onetime" instead).
It was cited by Adair Turner, the erstwhile chairman of Britain's erstwhile Financial Services Authority.
