Word: horizons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...port of Jidda and the inland capital of Riyadh, each with a population of more than 1 million today have become two of the fastest growing cities in the Middle East. Skyscrapers sprout from the desert landscape. Building cranes bristle across the horizon. Multi-lane highways and ringroads girdle the cities. Old neighborhoods change dramatically in a matter of weeks; new ones spring up overnight. The din of traffic and construction, residents complain, makes it virtually impossible to sleep after...
...breaks into a smile. Peace has brought him tangible dividends. Each morning, for four times what he made from a day's hustle in Cairo, he takes Sinai-bound passengers on the 2½-hour trip to the Suez Canal. As the highway stretches into the desert, the horizon is broken only by an occasional military encampment, gas station or Marlboro billboard in Arabic. Soon clumps of palm trees signal the town of Ismailia and the Suez ferry dock at Qantara...
...positive 1.5% last year to minus 1.5% in 1981. The unemployment rate, 4.8% last year, may reach 6% or more, and inflation is expected to rise from 5.5% to 7%. West Germany's national debt is currently $232 billion. Nor are there any quick fixes on the horizon. "The Chancellor is depressed," confides an aide...
With spring break just over the horizon, the Harvard rugby club is looking forward to another season of scrums and fun. According to club president ROY ROBERTS, 25 ruggers will sojourn to Nassau, the Bahamas, to face three native squads in five games over the March break to officially kick off the season, which includes eight games in April...
...packs of beer, still others zinging along in snowmobiles. Temperatures hover around the freezing mark, a moderate offshore wind is blowing out of the southeast. North toward Canada, the ice stretches as far as the eye can see, an unbroken white expanse that merges with the gray horizon of snow-laden clouds...