Word: arabia
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...tier share system could also prevent the stock from trading at a full premium. "Two classes of stock with two different voting powers is generally viewed negatively by institutional investors," says John Arabia, a managing director at Green Street Advisors of Newport Beach, Calif. "You could get into a situation where somebody owns more of the company but has less control...
These days, there's a lot more of that sort of thing. She appeared at a 2008 state dinner for Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah in a raspberry-colored silk blouse and matching organza skirt. She's taken to pairing well-cut trousers with bright, ethnic print blouses this summer. And she recently gave the famously well-dressed Carla Bruni a run for her money, when she received the French first lady in a plum Felipe Varela bandage-dress whose horizontal lines emphasized (in the most ladylike way possible, of course) her fine figure...
...religious and political leaders. Analysts say that the notoriously vicious new leader of the Pakistani Taliban Hakimullah Mehsud is keen to assert himself after assuming the leadership of the organization. But there is also speculation that any new campaign might be the work of al-Qaeda. Last week, Saudi Arabia's deputy interior minister survived an al-Qaeda suicide bomb attack in the port city of Jeddah. (See pictures of Osama Bin Laden...
...Italian journalist Massimo Donaddio noted in the daily Il Sole 24 Ore that Saudi Arabia's coach, at the recent World Athletics Championships in Berlin, declared that his athletes would strictly follow the Ramadan fast during the competition. The Saudis won exactly zero medals, writes Donaddio - but then, so did the Italians...
...pictures of President Obama in France, Germany, Egypt and Saudi Arabia...