Word: kingdom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Lufkin & Jenrette's aptly named Sprout Investment Group, has enabled Vorhauer to hire 40 employees. V.L.I. will soon move into a 50,000-sq.-ft. manufacturing facility in nearby Irvine. Vorhauer expects to hire 80 more workers by year's end as production gears up. The United Kingdom and four other countries have already approved Today for sale, though it is not yet on the market. Says Rick Kroon, chief of the Sprout venture-capital operation: "The potential market for the product is tremendous...
...million bbl., and in spite of that the market remains squishy. Saudi Arabia has taken the brunt of the cutbacks. Its production is currently only 3.3 million bbl. a day, roughly a third of its rate of 9.6 million bbl. a day in 1981. The keepers of the kingdom's finances are unwilling to go lower, or even remain this low for much longer...
...genetic engineering: a visit by Garry Wills as writer-in-residence a student production of "The Trojan Women," by Euripides; a lecture on grass-roots organizing of political action; a celebration of Black History Month including soul-food night and a lecture on the art of the Benin Kingdom; the beginning of a series of exhibits, lectures and films on abstract art, "The Shock of the New"; winter carnival with Mardi Gras as the theme; in addition to a variety of movies, concerts and recreational and varsity sports, including, yes, a women's ice hockey game with Harvard. There...
...aircraft carrier Ranger, she talked to the pilot of a one-passenger A-7 Corsair ("So you are all on your own in there?" said she. "Yes ma'am," said he) and met a sailor called Groucho Marx. The Queen (who is Lord High Admiral of the United Kingdom) and Prince Philip, turned out in his Admiral of the Fleet's dress blues, had a wardroom lunch with 50 Ranger officers. The menu included lobster, despite Her Majesty's widely supposed aversion to eating shellfish abroad,* and wine, thanks to a Washington waiver of the rule against...
...moved to England, Koestler turned his attention to anthropology, scientific phenomena and, ultimately, parapsychology. Recalling the "three out of every four friends" who had died or disappeared in the war, the Holocaust or the Gulag, he wrote, "Murder within the species is a phenomenon unknown in the whole animal kingdom, except for man and a few varieties of ants and rats." He sought explanations for human behavior outside the field of established science and attempted to revise ancient history. But scientists and critics were not always receptive...