Word: bin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...other oil ministers pretended to be unimpressed by Yamani's theatrics. Said Iraq's oil minister, Karim: "It is a big game that he always plays." When word came that Yamani was returning to the conference. Qatar's minister of finance and petroleum, Abdul-Aziz Bin Khalifa Al−Thani, went to the airport to accord him a proper protocol. "I am going to meet the big star," he smilingly told reporters...
...tank. Hot water then circulates through a heat coil over which air is blown by a fan and ducted to every room in the house. At Harry Evans' new home in East Hampton, N.Y., heat from solar panels in the roof is collected in a bin containing 1,000 sealed, plastic bottles of water, which can hold the heat for as long as three sunless days. The system provides between 50% and 75% of Evans' home heating requirements. Alden and Margaret Krider of Manhattan, Kans., have fashioned their own solar collectors from discarded aluminum printing plates, storing solar...
...Saudi Arabia. His Majesty, it seems, is in the market for a monster five-story-high 7475P jet that would probably cost upward of $50 million and include a stratospheric throne plus a royal hospital room wired for communication via satellite. Back in Chicago, meanwhile, emissaries of Qabus bin Said, 35, Sultan of Oman, were content merely to rent space on a 747. Of course, the plane was needed to haul off some of the Sultan's own purchases, including six custom-made Cadillac Sevilles, one Porsche, a 25-ft. ocean-going speedboat with trailer, and a Chevy truck...
That stand drew protests from Malaysian Prime Minister Datuk Hussein bin Onn and Singapore's Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew. Lee specifically criticized "countries like Laos" for their "urge to proselytize" and added that "we cannot tolerate interference in the internal affairs of any member...
...part of his upcoming memoirs, Encounters and Insights, the first installment of which appeared last week in the West German newsmagazine Der Spiegel. Lyndon Johnson, writes Brandt, was basically a bother. Johnson came to Berlin as John Kennedy's Vice President in 1961, and where Kennedy proclaimed, "Ich bin ein Berliner, "Johnson was more the ugly American. "On a Saturday evening, we had to get shoes from a store which had long been closed because he liked mine so much," recalls Brandt. "Since his feet were different sizes, he needed two pairs. On Sunday...