Word: arabian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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UNDER THE NEW AGREEMENT the minimum wage for baseball players was increased by a approximately 33 percent--up from an indecent $42,500 to an almost respectable $60,000. The modest increase may finally be just enough to raise the average ballplayer above the Saudi Arabian poverty line. The average annual salary, on the other hand, should get closer to about $400,000, which in all fairness, is fair compensation for having to work with selfless players like like Lee Mazzili, Roy Smalley, and Jim Rice...
...setting for the meeting was Taif, a restful summer retreat outside the Saudi Arabian city of Jidda, but the mood of the participants was far from relaxed. Representatives from nine of the 13 feuding members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries got together informally last week to debate what to do about falling oil prices. Several members of the group, including Nigeria and Ecuador, have been offering under-the-table discounts and exceeding their OPEC-decreed production quotas. As a result, Saudi Arabia's King Fahd directed Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani, his Oil Minister, to deliver an ultimatum...
Schahriah, it is told, was enchanted by the stories. But many moons later -- last week -- the judges of Cairo were enraged by the erotic tales. They said 3,500 copies of two unexpurgated editions of The Arabian Nights must be destroyed. For shame, cried many a citizen of Cairo. "If they forbid all works that speak of sex," said Salah Eissa of the newspaper Al Ahali, "they will be doing damage to the study of all writing." Indeed, noted some Cairenes, the rulers were too strict in administering the laws of Islam. "A storm is brewing that augurs disaster," warned...
...educated jet pilot and former press-relations officer for the Saudi Arabian Olympic Committee, Prince Sultan, 28, has been in training at the Johnson Space Center in Houston since early April. His other duties aboard the Discovery will include acting as a subject for medical experiments. One study will examine a curious side effect of low-gravity orbital flight: a height gain of up to two inches. Returning to earth can cut an astronaut back down to size in more ways than...
...than on that sunny May morning when 80 hooves scatter mud across Churchill Downs.A year-round influx of heavy-duty horse-fanatic millionaires has created a unique character in central Kentucky. Mercedes sedans park next to Chevy trucks; Red Man-chewing Joe Bob the horse trainer rubs elbows with Arabian princes...