Word: formula
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Feinbloom tentatively diagnosed Jessica's illness as a digestive disorder and recommended the feeding of "Pregestimil" (a formula which is directly absorbed by the body) which is not sold in the Soviet Union...
...past few months, Jessica has survived on the formula, which the Katz family obtained from American tourists. Her health has shown a definite improvement, Feinbloom said...
...breaks with his chief negotiators, Dayan and Weizman, over the Israeli response to the latest proposals from Washington and Cairo, he could destroy the negotiations-and bring on a crisis for his government. If, on the other hand, he can win approval from his unruly Cabinet for a compromise formula on linkage, the achievement of a peace with Egypt after 30 years of war could lie just ahead...
...bonds of such corporate giants as AT&T, General Motors and U.S. Steel. SAMA also puts deposits into 23 blue-chip American banks and some top foreign banks, though it limits these deposits so that they never exceed the bank's capital (in Citibank's case, the formula works out to about $2.8 billion). Overall, the Saudis told Blumenthal's delegation last year, their investments have an average maturity of only seven years, and bankers figure they are getting about an average 8% return, vs. the 11% that Kuwait is said to collect on its more adventurous...
...investments not with riyals but with the dollars they get from oil sales. Indeed, the Saudis let few riyals out of the country; they do not want the riyal to become an international currency, lest its value be set by speculators and other money traders. Authorities have kept the formula by which they peg the riyal's value a deep secret. A London bank once set its computers to work trying to calculate the formula, to see whether and how it was related to the Saudis' trading surplus or the fluctuations of the dollar against other currencies...