Word: arabian
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...standing-room-only crowd is not surprising, considering the galaxy of luminaries--including two members of President Reagan's Cabinet, a Saudi Arabian sheik, and the cream of Harvard's professorial crop--slated to address crowds in the Yard and at most of the graduate schools...
...spark for a settlement came, surprisingly, from Iran. On the morning of Aug. 2, Iranian Oil Minister Gholamreza Aqazadeh approached Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani, his Saudi Arabian counterpart. The two men talked for about 90 minutes in Yamani's suite, which had a sweeping view of Lake Geneva. Since OPEC members were unwilling to make long-term promises to limit their oil production, Aqazadeh reasoned, Why not try an interim measure? He suggested a temporary return to the group's 1984 quota of some 16 million...
...Saudi Arabian oil minister, considered by some experts to be the most influential person in the international petroleum industry, will headline a symposium focusing on the oil market during the Kennedy School of Government's 50th anniversary celebration in early September, officials announced yesterday...
...fighters thundered down the runway of King Abdul Aziz Air Base and rose steeply into the skies above the gulf. The flashy maneuver, conducted last week for visiting American Vice President George Bush, displayed the impressive might of a Saudi Arabian air force that has been largely trained and equipped by the U.S. Yet the show of strength was also a reminder of the dangers that confront Saudi Arabia, a fabulously wealthy kingdom that sits atop the largest proven oil reserves on earth. Faced with plunging revenues at home and increasingly ominous military threats abroad, the Saudis are passing through...
...ensure ample supplies < of grain, Riyadh has paid growers six times the world price for their output. But since the kingdom consumes only about half the nearly 2 million tons that farmers produce annually, Saudi Arabia has a grain glut. Efforts to raise livestock have been troubled. The Saudi Arabian Agriculture and Dairy Co., which opened in 1980, managed to breed 15,000 cows over the following five years. But the $100 million total cost was so great that the firm had to refinance its debts...