Word: arabian
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...theme parks, or at least themes. A store selling Christmas trinkets is called Christmas World. There are Bargain World, Flea World, Bedroom Land and Waterbedroom Land. At the Medieval Times restaurant, patrons can eat roas meat with their hands and watch knights in armor joust on horseback. At the Arabian Nights, sheiks steal gossamer-clad princesses during dinner shows. Orange County's most famous golf course, the Grand Cypress resort, has reconstructed the layout of the hallowed Old Course at St. Andrews in Scotland. The Florida Peabody Hotel copies a ritual of the original Peabody in Memphis: every...
Baybak appeared in 1989 at the helm of Wall Street Ventures, a start-up that announced it owned 35 tons of rare Middle Eastern postage stamps -- worth $100 million -- and was buying the world's largest collection of southern Arabian stamps (worth $350 million). Steven C. Rockefeller Jr. of the oil family and former hockey star Denis Potvin joined the company in top posts, but both say they quit when they realized the stamps were virtually worthless. "The stamps were created by sand-dune nations to exploit collectors," says Michael Laurence, editor of Linn's Stamp News, America's largest...
...Gnehm has a reputation for navigating successfully through difficult straits. In the wake of the 1973 Arab-Israeli war, when relations between the U.S. and Syria were restored, it was Gnehm who ran the U.S. interests section in Damascus. When Washington wanted a presence in Riyadh, the Saudi Arabian capital, Gnehm was selected. When the sensitive issue of reflagging Kuwaiti oil tankers arose during the Iran-Iraq war, Gnehm was a key negotiator. "He is unassuming and unflappable," says Ali al- Khalifa al-Sabah, Kuwait's Finance Minister, "exactly the kind of guy to deal with Arabs like...
That is a large part of the message Secretary of State James Baker is carrying on a swing through the Middle East that began last week. It is also what he heard on his first stop Friday in Riyadh; his Saudi Arabian hosts are equally convinced of the need to move fast...
...They parked two tanks in front of the hotel and shelled it," says Rafiq Islam Bulu, 29, from Dhaka. "When we came back, it was on fire." The Bangladeshis, he adds, lost everything they owned. That night the Iraqis also destroyed the offices of Air France and Saudi Arabian Airlines, the Gulf Bank and Kuwait's largest building, al-Montana complex...