Word: basement
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OMAN. Ten years ago, Oman (pop. 800,000) was one of the most underdeveloped nations in the Arab world. It had only three elementary schools, a handful of doctors and nurses, and was ruled by tyrannical Sultan Said bin Taimur, who hoarded state revenues (all in gold) in the basement of his palace. Finally, his Sandhurst-educated son, Qaboos, then 29, staged a palace coup and set about bringing the country into the 20th century. Today Oman boasts 375 schools and 14 modern hospitals. A rebellion in the Dhofar region, fanned by Marxist South Yemen, has been snuffed...
...University Police will vacate its familiar confines in the basement of Grays - Hall some time this fall, moving to a new spot headquarters at 29 Garden...
...headquarters has a garage, and both Steiner and Chafin cited the esthetic advantages of the new site. "We've been here in the basement for a number of years," Chafin said. The new office, he added, "won't look like a police station...
...Henry Award for his short sto ry 1-80 Nebraska M.490-M.205. Three years later his novel Union Dues (whose theme of cultural cross-pollination surfaces again in Secaucus) was nominated for a National Book Award. National Book Award. He has written three films for Roger Gorman's bargain-basement New World Pictures: Piranha, The Lady in Red and the current Battle Beyond the Stars. The profits from his stories and his Corman scripts
...headquarters has a garage, and both Steiner and Chafin cited the esthetic advantages of the new site. "We've been here in the basement for a number of years," Chafin said. The new office, he added, "won't look like a police station...