With seed aid and other forms of assistance, farmers have planted seeds for the Rabi season.

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Rabi was interested in the properties of atomic nuclei, not clocks, and he never pursued the idea.

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The Justice Department brought criminal charges against Rabi, who was convicted of securities fraud and conspiracy to commit fraud.

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But after the second world war, his former student, Norman Ramsey, improved Rabi's method, collecting his own Nobel prize for the work in 1989.

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Rabi Lamichhane, a Nepali who normally lives in the US, interviewed politicians, journalists and celebrities on the theme "Buddha was born in Nepal" for his show.

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Rabi was the subject of fresh fraud charges brought by the SEC, which declared the balance sheet and income statements his company put out were fiction.

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The chief executive, David Elie Rabi, portraying himself as a seasoned executive, turned out to be an ex-con who had served four years in prison for securities fraud.

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The Royal Agricultural Benevolent Institution (RABI), which provides charitable grants to farming families, said it had seen a rise in emergency payments and in the number of calls to its helpline.

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The Royal Agricultural Benevolent Institution (RABI), a charity which provides financial assistance to farmers and their families, said that because most farmers were self-employed they had an income only if they had something to sell.

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