How to pronounce “shek” in English

ten shekels added to your bill, no if's, ands or but's; automatic fine." And the minute they added the fine, the behavior at those day care centers changed. Late pickups

It says "shekh ma shierak-i anni" across here, which is "my sun and stars." And across the back of the neck it

13 trillion shekels or whatever, some insanely sum that no one could possibly pay.

We have to save our shekels so we can pay people to take care of us.

And it was put there by Chiang Kai-shek as a sort of our rallying cry to tell Taiwanese citizens

These numbers, 10,000 shekels per month?

So when they got married, when Chiang Kai-shek and Soong Mei-ling got married, she invited Whitey Smith and his band to play at their wedding.

it's somewhere between 5,000 to let's say 50,000 shekels per year.

that these groups which are the Shardana, the Shekelesh, the Weshesh, the Eques, the Peleset, you know, these names that most people have never heard of, that they were the ones that were

that's where they came from. The Shekalesh, that sounds a lot like Sicily. So maybe they came from there. But the earliest Egyptologists actually thought that that's where they went after they

You probably know these two, Soong Meiling and her husband Chiang Kai-shek.

are what I call cave lines, representing the tunnels that Chiang Kai-Shek had his nationalist army carve through the mountains when they came to Taiwan.

This seat went to Chiang Kai-shek, the then

The oldest residents of the PRC can remember a time when China was governed by a non-communist regime, that of Chiang Kai-Shek

as is and would only say, no, you don't get a 500 shekel fine, you will get a 1000 shekel fine, this would not help.

So if you put people in prison, this is the first row, it's about 120,000 shekels a year per prisoner.

I mean, I don't think to myself, like 10,000 shekels just for food, for transportation.

But in terms of music, if you look at music, it launched Vishal Dadlani as a composer, who then, during that time, teamed up with Shekhar Ravjiani, who

So I got a chance to interview some amazing artists like AR Rehman, Sunidhi Chauhan, Rekha Bhardwaj, Shekhar Kapur,

had discharged the whole of the debt to the day care center and there was no residue of social concern or guilt left? The parents, quite reasonably said, "Ten shekels to pick

who came late to pick up their children. As of next Sunday, a fine of ten Israeli shekels -- about $6.00 U.S. -- will be charged every time a child is collected after 4:10."

the experiment, right? You can see immediately what happened, right? The fine broke the culture, right? When Gneezy and Rustichini communicated to the parents that paying ten shekels they