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...names of dozens of leading businessmen and members of the region's ruling families, among them Sheik Ahmed Zaki Yamani, the former Oil Minister of Saudi Arabia, and seven members of the Saudi royal family. The vips generated tremendous interest, and when the new bank sold a large chunk of its stock to the public, prospective buyers in Bahrain queued up at dawn...
...only have so much money, and this is a big chunk," Haynes said. "Shouldn't we have this check? We don't fund houses, we fund undergraduates, and they just happen to live in the houses and yard dorms...
...Pauli first proposed the existence of the neutrino in 1930, he labeled his hypothetical particle "a frightful thing." The neutrino would neatly explain a tiny energy imbalance in certain nuclear reactions, but it would also be so ethereal that the average neutrino could zip through a trillion-mile-thick chunk of lead without hitting a single atom. Since the particles would presumably sail undetected through any measuring device, Pauli lamented, his clever idea could never be proved correct...
Simpson's talent agency, International Creative Management, has dropped him as a client; publishers are reportedly balking at making a deal for his second book; and it is hard to imagine any network or film studio alienating a large chunk of its audience by putting Simpson in a TV series or movie. "In the eyes of many people he's still a murder suspect," says Joel Segal, an executive vice president at McCann-Erickson advertising. "Why should advertisers associate themselves with that kind of problem when they don't have to?" Offers a top movie agent: "I don't have...
...little like drinking out of a fire-hose... There are literally eight or 10 important things to be done every day and not rest, no chunk of time to sit and reflect," he added...