Word: arabian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...soon as the curtain lifts halfway to reveal three sequined bellies gyrating to an Arabian beat, we know we're not in Kansas anymore...
Halfway around the world from Cancun, a similar flurry of nervous consultation took place. In the Saudi Arabian capital of Riyadh, Hussain Lwasani, the Iranian Foreign Ministry's director for African and Arab affairs, met with Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al Faisal. Lwasani's mission, said a Saudi spokesman, was "related to the current oilmarket situation." A day later, Major Khoualdy Humaidi, a member of Libyan Strongman Muammar Gaddafi's governing Revolutionary Command Council, showed up for a session with Saudi King Fahd. Later, it was announced that the 13-member Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries would hold...
Yellowed and moth-eaten letters in a chest apparently jettisoned into the sea from a cruise liner were recently recovered by an Icelandic toymaker. These letters have been united with a similar collection unearthed last spring by an Arabian goatherd, and the complete set is now in my posession. They prove beyond doubt that the Friends of Sisyphus Youth League, led by senior and presumed Trotskyoid Tom Careen, and the Conversative Club, led by senior and presumed Monarchoid Sy Kahane, have aims far different than these shallow impressions indicate...
...frequently murky realm of global oil prices, even the offhand remarks of Saudi Arabian Oil Minister Ahmed Zaki Yamani can create an avalanche of rumor and speculation. Last week the energy industry worldwide was abuzz over Yamani's latest actions. With an OPEC meeting scheduled for Oct. 3 in Vienna, the mercurial minister let it be known that he had entered negotiations that could lead to lower Saudi Arabian crude prices for some customers. The move was seen by many as evidence that prices of the hard-pressed OPEC cartel might be on the verge of cracking. Said John Lichtblau...
...that when the primordial gaseous swirl condensed into the sun and its satellites, large amounts of hydrocarbons settled in the earth's interior. Some of those compounds seeped upward into porous rocks and sediments, says Gold, and became such accessible pockets of riches as the oil fields of the Arabian Peninsula. He predicts that if greater depths were mined, fuel reserves far beyond current estimates would be found...