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He earned a law degree in 1925 and worked for the Municipality of Baghdad as well as for the Department of Finance, working in education.
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In 1925, Chadirji's reformist ideas drew him to the newly-formed People's Party (Hizb al-Shab), which he joined.
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He joined the Ahali group, and was elected to parliament in 1927, becoming the minister of works from 1936 to 1937 under Bakr Sidqi and Hikmat Sulayman's government, resigning in protest against army interference in the government.
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In 1930, Chadirji, as a member of the National Party (also known as the Ahali group), worked together with Rashid Ali, Hikmat Sulayman and Yasin al-Hashimi, the leaders of the newly-created National Fraternity Party (Hizb al-Ikha al-Watani).
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The National Party and the National Fraternity Party issued the Coalition "Fraternal" Communique on November 23, 1930.
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The party was not much of an organized and legitimate political party, instead serving as an opposition from powerful Iraqi political figures to the British.
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Its ideals were "Immediate independence for Iraq, the evacuation of British troops, and the development of a democratic and participatory Iraqi state," and they pushed their message through their Baghdad newspaper, "al-Bilad" (The Country).
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In 1946, Chadirji, along with other left-wing "intelligentsia" types of the landed urban bourgeoisie (the dominant tendency in these isolated urban middle and upper-class communities) organized themselves into the National Democratic Party.
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Previously, Chadirji and his group, made of Ahali reformists, had joined the Comintern in 1935 at the Seventh Comintern Congress in Moscow.
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Chadirji was moderately anti-Zionist and advocated for strengthening the Arab League.
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In 1937, while serving as Economic Minister under the government of Hikmat Sulayman, Chadirji held talks with Zionist emissaries.
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He expressed his sympathies to the Zionist movement and his desire to reach a cooperative agreement for them.
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However, with the Palestinian question becoming important in Iraq towards the mid-1940s, the NDP increased its Palestine-related activity.
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In 1946, the Ahali Group's newspaper "Sawt al-Ahali" published editorials against the partition of Palestine and the creation of Israel.
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The NDP and other parties (including Jews), especially the Iraqi Independence Party, created the Committee for the Defense of Palestine, which organized protests in front of the American and British embassies, as well as calling for a general strike in May 1946 against Western pressure on Palestine.
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When the Arab-Israeli War started in 1948, Chadirji wrote and published a front-page editorial for "Sawt al-Ahali" titled "Palestine", which called for Arab countries to come together to defend Palestine.
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The NDP suspended their activities voluntarily in 1948, but resumed in 1950.
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Due to Chadirji's will to redistribute income and achieve a more political society, he was imprisoned 2 times in the 1950s.
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He was sympathetic to pan-Arab ideas.
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"Sawt al-Ahali" also served as an opposition mouthpiece.
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In 1949, Prime Minister Nuri al-Said had had enough of "Sawt al-Ahali" and its attacks, so he filed a court case against Chadirji.
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Chadirji arrived at the courthouse accompanied by 21 defense lawyers.
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Inside the court, he lectured the prosecution and the judge on democratic values.
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The proceedings were published in "Sawt al-Ahali", and Chadirji was sentenced to 6 months of hard labor.
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However, the defense appealed the court ruling, and it was taken back by the court.
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The NDP helped organized demonstrations in 1948 against the Anglo-Iraqi Treaty (also known as the "Portsmouth Treaty").
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On January 21, the Regent of Iraq called the leaders of the parties involved in the protests to a meeting at the palace.
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Chadirji explained that the people of Iraq wanted the new, finished constitution to be implemented, and additionally demanded the full freedoms "of the press, association and opinion... and you in your capacity as the defender of the constitution must penalize the government when it behaves [anti-democratically]."
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In 1949, Syrian foreign minister Nazim al-Kudsi informed other Arab countries of Syria's desire for federation.
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Chadirji was skeptical of this proposal, and, as he states in his memoirs, many members of the Iraqi opposition hoped for a collapse of the talks would strengthen Nuri al-Said and the Sharifian elites.
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After the war, Chadirji focused on trying to unite parties into a grand coalition to oppose the monarchy's authoritarianism.
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Seeing as the Al-Wathbah uprising of 1948 and the Iraqi Intifada of 1952 had failed, he realized that one party was not enough to bring about sufficient change.
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His efforts ended in the creation of the "National Electoral Front" ("al-Jabha al-Intikhabiya al-Wataniya"), consisting of the NDP, the Iraqi Communist Party, and other parties (only 2 groups in the National Front were legal parties), which contested the June 1954 elections, winning 10 out of 135 seats.
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Chadirji continued to push his anti-British ideals.
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In August 1958, he met British Oriental Counselor Samuel Falle, and told him about the Arab perspective of events in the Middle East.
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Chadirji talked about the inclination of Arab countries to the Soviet Union, their suspicion at American troops in Lebanon, and their perceived threat of British forces in Jordan.
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He recommended that Britain withdraw from Jordan and allow a plebiscite to happen to decide its fate.
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However, this talk worked largely in the opposite direction.
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Following Abd al-Karim Qasim's 14 July Revolution in 1958, the Iraqi monarchy was abolished.
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Chadirji was supportive of the revolution.
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The new regime pushed a message of authority and national legitimacy.
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The NDP chose to align more with the Communists rather than the pan-Arab parties to the right, even though the NDP was a bourgeois party and the ICP represented the working class.
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After the Revolution, they formed an immediate alliance with the Communists, but a stable coalition was not achieved, as the alliance came under constant attacks from Ba'athists and Nasserists.
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The NDP was weakened first, and then the ICP.
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Chadirji disliked Qasim's politics – he believed that Qasim had no real political convictions, and likened him to a rope-dancer, who would "swing from one ideology to another to remain in power" just like a rope-dancer would swing from side to side to remain balanced.
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In 1963, Chadirji, with the NDP now dissolved, sent a memorandum to Iraqi Field Marshal Abdel-Salam Aref, calling for democracy in Iraq.
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On February 2, 1968, Chadirji died at the age of 71 from a heart attack.
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At about the same time, the NDP called for the signing of a "revolutionary covenant" to oppose the Ba'ath regime and create a popular democratic one.
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Alla Gryaznova
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Alla Georgievna Gryaznova (born November 27, 1937, Moscow, Soviet Union) is a Russian economist, full Ph.D. in Economics, a rector of Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation (1985–2006).
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In 2006 she became President of Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation.
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Alla Georgievna was born in Moscow in 1937.
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Her mother worked as an accountant, and her father was a driver.
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She has three younger siblings.
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In 1955, she graduated from the Moscow Finance College.
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Then, in 1959, she graduated from the Moscow Financial Institute.
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From 1961 to 1964 she attended graduate school at the university.
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From 1964 she served as Assistant, Department of Political Economy, Moscow Financial Institute.
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In 1969 she became Senior Lecturer, Associate Professor at the Department of Political Economy.
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In 1976 she became full Ph.D. in Economics.
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From 1976 to 1985 she served as Vice-Rector for Research and International Relations.
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From 1985 to 2006 she served as Rector of the Financial Academy.
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Since 2006 she has been President of the Financial Academy (later Financial University under the Government of the Russian Federation).
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Gryaznova made a significant contribution to the development of the theoretical foundations of many applied subjects, such as banking, economic analysis, auditing, accounting, and insurance.
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Gryaznova initiated and led the process of developing of the concept of education in the field of finance and banking in Russia until 2010.
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She headed the Academic council of the Financial Academy and served as chair of dissertation councils for defending candidate and doctoral dissertations in economic sciences.
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Gryaznova is a major specialist in the field of economic sciences, the author of more than 300 scientific papers, monographs, textbooks and articles.
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Her three-volume monograph “Banking system of Russia.
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Banker's Handbook” was awarded the Prize of the President of the Russian Federation.
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Alla Gryaznova is a prominent scientific and public figure in Russia.
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She is the Deputy Chairman of the Higher Attestation Commission of the Ministry of Education of the Russian Federation, Vice-President of the Academy of Management and Market, Member of the Association of Banks of Russia, Member of the International Fiscal Association, Member of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) inter-governmental forum.
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Jo Heng
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Jo Heng (19609 January 2020), also known as Xing Zenghua, was a Singaporean lyricist.
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She died from lymphoma, a type of blood cancer, on 9 January 2020 at the age of 59.
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Heng studied in Bukit Panjang Government High School and Thomson Secondary School and was good at Chinese composition.
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She worked in factories before joining Xin He Magazine.
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She liked to read novels by Chinese writer Lu Xun and the works of Taiwanese writer San Mao.
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She also listened to the songs of Taiwanese singers Fong Fei-fei and Lo Ta-yu.
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A pioneer in the Xinyao scene, Heng is widely known for penning songs for Jacky Cheung's "A Thousand Sad Reasons" and Eric Moo's "You Are My Only One" for which she won at the Composers and Authors Society of Singapore (Compass) in 1997 and the Sing Music Awards in 1989, respectively.
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She also wrote the lyrics for Andy Lau's "The Path Winds Through High Peaks" which was released in 1994.
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As one of the pioneers, she was also featured in the 2015 documentary "The Songs We Sang" about Xinyao for which she also wrote the theme song.
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List of Macarthur FC players
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Macarthur FC is an Australian professional football club located in Campbelltown, New South Wales.
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The club was founded in 2017 and was accepted into the A-League in 2018.
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They will begin playing in 2020.
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They will play their home games at Campbelltown Stadium.
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"Statistics correct as of 15 January 2020"
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Lower Bari Doab Canal
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Lower Bari Doab Canal was commissioned in 1914, off-taking from Balloki Barrage whereas the barrage itself was constructed in 1911-13.
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The canal was remodeled in 1985-88 and then again in 2014-18.
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The canal was formally inaugurated by Governor of the Punjab Sir William Malcolm Hailey on 12 April 1912.
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Subsidiary canal off-taking from the main canal were designed by Sir Ganga Ram to irrigate his 50,000 acres of land in Sahiwal district of the Punjab.
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Sir Ganga Ram incidentally also built a power station on the main canal near the town of Renala Khurd in 1925.
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The power station had 5 generators delivering a total of 1.1 mega watt electricity.
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The canal has been rehabilitated as part of a mega project funded by the Asian Development Fund and implemented by the Lower Bari Doab Canal Improvement Project of the Punjab Irrigation Department in 2014-18.
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The 201 km long canal along with 2,264 km of distribution channels irrigates 700,000 hectares of land of Okara, Pakpattan, Sahiwal and Khanewal districts.
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The remodeling project also enhanced the flood management of the Balloki Barrage from 2,25,000 cusecs to 2,60,000 cusecs.
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Odebrecht–Car Wash leniency agreement
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The Odebrecht–Car Wash leniency agreement, also known in Brazil as the "end of the world plea deal" (), was the leniency agreement signed between Odebrecht S.A. and the Public Prosecutor's Office (PGR) in December 2016, as part of Operation Car Wash.
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The agreement provided for the deposition of 78 executives of the contractor, including the former president Marcelo Odebrecht, and his father, , which generated 83 inquests at the Supreme Federal Court (STF).
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