Word: 1980s
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...towering figure among Islamic fundamentalists. His late father rose from peasant origins in Yemen to become Saudi Arabia's richest construction magnate. The family's wealth is estimated at $5 billion, and at 38, Osama bin Laden personally controls a fortune of perhaps $300 million. In the 1980s he became famous in Islamic circles for his heroic role fighting the Soviets in Afghanistan as one of the main leaders of the Arab volunteers. A few years after the war, he went into exile in Sudan, where he runs several businesses--a construction firm, a farm that produces sunflower seeds...
According to various media sources, Joel Myerson, Carolina Research Professor of American Literature at the University of South Carolina, and Daniel Shealy, associate professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, came accross the manuscript sometimes in the late 1980s...
...necessarily. Western and Arab observers agree that it is not certain how well Assad controls Hizballah, even though it operates on his turf in Lebanon. The Shi'ite guerrilla force was founded in the early 1980s by radical Iranians. Assad, a secular politician who crushed his homegrown fundamentalists, did not publicly embrace Hizballah; he entrusted relations to his intelligence chiefs. The group has grown less extreme in recent years, sending delegates to the Lebanese parliament, but Hizballah is still closely tied to Tehran and remains as determined as ever to fight Israel. Yet it also seems to pay attention...
What do I fear about Peres?" concerned about answering at all, Yitzhak Rabin mulled the question carefully. This was in the mid-1980s, and Rabin was hardly a disinterested observer. He and Shimon Peres had been bitter Labor Party rivals throughout their careers. Both men were still angling to lead Israel, and Rabin was reluctant to offend needlessly. "O.K.," he finally said, "but this is for later. You'll talk to me first...
Though their names aren't as well known as those of Olajuwon and Barkley, all the players are at the top of their game. The leader is shortstop Dot Richardson. Voted NCAA Player of the Decade for the 1980s, Richardson, 34, is a clutch hitter who has the hands of, well, a surgeon. In fact, she has taken a leave from her medical residency in orthopedic surgery to join the Games. The U.S. pitching staff is as impressive as the Braves'. It includes Lisa Fernandez, a four-time All-American at UCLA; Michele Smith, with a college record...