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...same time, Abdullah has slashed government budgets. In February, he warned bureaucrats that they faced dismissal if they didn't perform effectively, a shocking declaration in a system that once assured every college graduate a government desk and a paycheck, work or no work. The 30,000-strong royal family wasn't spared the belt tightening: no more ignoring telephone and utility bills, he decreed, or treating the national carrier Saudia like a private airline...
...worry. Yet another pledge of peace is being dangled. This time it is the Saudi "peace plan." Crown Prince Abdullah tells the New York Times that he has a speech in his desk drawer promising normalization with Israel if it returns to its 1967 borders. He would love to give the speech, he avers, but he cannot because of the beastly actions of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon...
...rifles and pistols hung on the wall and the coat rack holding the Captain’s tunic. With time and the Captain’s growing madness, the order within the set begins to slacken. By the end of the second act, when the Captain throws a desk lamp at Laura in rage, the room has begun to slip into disarray...
...advantages of this setup is that it enables the play to move seamlessly between plotlines. An office worker sitting at a desk replaces a pair of would-be lovers on a train almost instantaneously with the closing of one window and the opening of another...
Ashley waited three weeks to confront Jane about the diary. “I’d look over at her desk and see her typing,” Ashley says, “and then I would read what she wrote after she went to bed. I was distraught.” Everyday life proceeded normally as Jane remained unaware of what was going on; Ashley never signed the guest book...