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The local Arabic press has given full coverage to the council' s debates and to a series of informal majlis discussions held weekly during Ramadan. In the latter,the issues of youth unemployment,drugs,the role of women and the size of the immigrant population were freely discussed. However,observers say Western-style democracy is not on the political agenda as the majlis system enjoys legitimacy and appears well-suited to the tribal traditions of Gulf society.

Dubai is making progress in its efforts to promote international awareness of its attractions. The emirate is now firmly on the world sporting map and reaping the rewards of more publicity. Tennis had been added to the growing list of sporting events, with a BMW/Dubai Duty Free-sponsored tournament in February. This joins horse racing, golf,powerboat racing and snooker championships,which are all already established on the international tournament circuit. Major investment is going into the Dubai-based Emirates airline, which added four new destinations last summer-Rome, Zurich, Paris and Jakarta--and on 14 April started operations to Dhahran, its 31st destination. Emirates now employs almost 3,500 staff, making it one of Dubai's largest employers. Why does Dubai make efforts to hold various kinds of sporting events?

Dubai is making progress in its efforts to promote international awareness of its attractions. The emirate is now firmly on the world sporting map and reaping the rewards of more publicity. Tennis had been added to the growing list of sporting events, with a BMW/Dubai Duty Free-sponsored tournament in February. This joins horse racing, golf,powerboat racing and snooker championships,which are all already established on the international tournament circuit. Major investment is going into the Dubai-based Emirates airline, which added four new destinations last summer-Rome, Zurich, Paris and Jakarta--and on 14 April started operations to Dhahran, its 31st destination. Emirates now employs almost 3,500 staff, making it one of Dubai's largest employers. What sport had recently been added to the sporting events in Dubai?

Dubai is making progress in its efforts to promote international awareness of its attractions. The emirate is now firmly on the world sporting map and reaping the rewards of more publicity. Tennis had been added to the growing list of sporting events, with a BMW/Dubai Duty Free-sponsored tournament in February. This joins horse racing, golf,powerboat racing and snooker championships,which are all already established on the international tournament circuit. Major investment is going into the Dubai-based Emirates airline, which added four new destinations last summer-Rome, Zurich, Paris and Jakarta--and on 14 April started operations to Dhahran, its 31st destination. Emirates now employs almost 3,500 staff, making it one of Dubai's largest employers. What does "Emirates" stand for according to the context?

Passage 1 The slowdown of the industrial countries in 1991 partly originated in structural problems inherited from the 1980s. Slower growth in Europe in 1991 revealed that unemployment, for instance, was still a structurally problematic area. The unemployment rate in the four largest European economies was 7.8 per cent in 1990, near the peak of the business cycle, and rose to 8.3 per cent in 1991.Financial stress brought on by excessive debt in the household and corporate sectors was an example of another kind of structural problem, in particular for the economies of Japan and the United States.Financial institutions in these two countries adopted more conservative lending policies, curtailing financing of higher-risk projects such as commercial construction and highly leveraged corporate transactions. A number of weaker institutions were also consolidated through bankruptcy, merger and reorganization. These developments played some part in the general tightening of credit during 1991, which may have helped to slow the pace of investment in the United States and Japan. Weak growth of credit and a fall in some asset prices probably slowed consumption, as well. How could "weak growth of credit and a fall in some asset prices" slow down consumption?

Passage 2 What the statistics do not reveal is how much is unofficially re-exported from the country.This is acknowledged by Dubai's customs department. "The re-export figures are indicative of markets rather than volumes, "a spokesman says. "If you add up the import figures and work out that 85 per cent of it is supposed to stay in the country, then the UAE would be the best stocked warehouse in the world.” Do the UAE's statistics on trade show the volume of all its re-exports?