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nadir
The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
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nadir the point on the celestial sphere directly below an observer; in general use, the lowest point in the fortunes of a person or organization. Recorded from late Middle English (in the astronomical sense) the word comes via French from Arabic
naẓīr (as-samt) ‘opposite (to the zenith)’.
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Nadir Shah's Quest for Legitimacy in Post-Safavid Iran.(Book review)
Magazine article from: Middle East Quarterly; 6/22/2007; ; 700+ words
; Nadir Shah's Quest for Legitimacy in Post-Safavid...55. In the early eighteenth century, Nadir Shah tore like a whirlwind across the Iranian...had ruled Iran since 1501, had fractured. Nadir Shah picked up the pieces and, in a series...
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Nadir - the ghost who never stopped haunting Robert Wardle has been in the thick of the SFO inquiry since the start, writes Richard Fletcher
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 9/7/2003; ; 681 words
; ...director of the Serious Fraud Office, Asil Nadir's bid to clear his name could not have...since 2002. Wardle was on holiday when Nadir's lawyers approached the SFO. He was still considering how to respond when Nadir went public with his proposal. The Nadir...
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Whose nadir? Polly Peck International. (control of company's assets)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 11/12/1994; 700+ words
; ...London-based conglomerate built by Asil Nadir, a Turkish- Cypriot entrepreneur, have...and in northern Cyprus are still under Mr Nadir's control. He skipped bail 18 months...treaty with it. From his bolthole, Mr Nadir has used injunctions granted by courts...
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Pilot who aided Nadir's escape faces jail term
Newspaper article from: The Scotsman; 8/4/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...who helped the fugitive businessman Asil Nadir to flee British courts was facing jail...almost certainly go to prison for enabling Nadir, the former chairman of the collapsed...Polly Peck, to flee Britain in 1993. Nadir, who had been awaiting trial for on charges...
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PRE-20TH CENTURY HISTORY: Nadir Shah's Quest for Legitimacy in Post-Safavid Iran
Magazine article from: The Middle East Journal; 1/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; PRE-20TH CENTURY HISTORY Nadir Shah's Quest for Legitimacy in Post...very slim book is not a biography of Nadir Shah, although the latter's career...issues that were the principal focus of Nadir Shah's diplomatic efforts during his...
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Tories face demands to clarify Nadir links
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 1/3/1994; ; 679 words
; ...chairman, and the fugitive tycoon, Asil Nadir. So far, Sir Norman Fowler, the Tory...come clean about their dealings with Mr Nadir," he said, adding that this was the...we felt it wasn't worth replying." Nadir was one of the Tory party's most substantial...
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A pretty mess for Nadir. (Polly Peck International, Asil Nadir) (company profile)
Magazine article from: The Economist (US); 10/6/1990; 700+ words
; A pretty mess for Nadir "IS POLLY PECK a Guinness or a British...entrepreneurial conglomerate built up by Mr Asil Nadir, was the most successful share-tip of...and exporting fruit from Cyprus, but Mr Nadir also led the company into electronics...
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Nadir fights for British pension fund
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 10/22/2000; ; 700+ words
; ASIL NADIR, the disgraced businessman who fled Britain...his pension fund. The case has outraged Nadir's former associates, some of whom are...1940 but is now owed compensation after Nadir failed to pay him, said the pending case...
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Turk votes for Christmas Asil Nadir is to return from his Cyprus bolthole to face decade-old theft charges. But his hopes of a quick resolution seem optimistic, says Damian Reece
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 9/7/2003; ; 700+ words
; For Asil Nadir the years of sun-drenched exile in the...last, to face his prosecutors in court. Nadir fled the country in 1993 after the collapse...the Manchester lawyer trying to facilitate Nadir's return. "He still has ambitions...
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Fugitive Nadir paid pounds 200m of firm's cash into secret accounts in Cyprus Investigation: `IoS' obtains regulator's report revealing true scale of 1980s fraud
Newspaper article from: The Independent on Sunday; 9/7/2003; ; 700+ words
; Asil Nadir personally transferred nearly pounds 200m...obtained by The Independent on Sunday. Mr Nadir fled the UK in 1993, leaving on a light...stuck with flags marking the spread of the Nadir empire. But an independent investigation...
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Nadir Shah
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Nadir Shah Nadir Shah (1687-1747) ruled Persia for eleven years. He rose from abject...right proportion of flattery and brute force to reach his goals. Born Nadir Kouli, the future monarch was born on October 22, 1687 a few miles southeast...
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nadir
Book article from: A Dictionary of Astronomy
nadir The point on the celestial sphere directly beneath an observer. It is the direction in which a plumb-line points. The nadir is 180 ° from the zenith .
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Celestial coordinates
Encyclopedia entry from: The Gale Encyclopedia of Science
...for objects below it [between it and the nadir ( h =-90 ° )]. Azimuth (A...and SCP) coincide with the zenith and nadir, and the celestial meridian becomes undefined...sphere 90 ° from the zenith and nadir. Hour circles — Half circles...
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Hammill, Peter
Book article from: Contemporary Musicians
...1970s, particularly 1975’s Nadir’s Big Chance, and subsequently...In 1975, he departed even further with Nadir’s Big Change, a song cycle...a hard-rocking alter ego named Rikki Nadir. “I do have several alter egos...
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Muhammad Zahir Shah
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...the troubled country. The son of King Nadir Shah of Afghanistan, Muhammad Zahir Shah...Hashim, had been prime minister under King Nadir Shah, and he remained in that post until...immediately following the assassination of Nadir Shah, Hashim, who was described by insiders...
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