Word: kingdom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Islamic fasting. But Ramadan or not, it was also pretty much business as usual in one imposing Riyadh office building. Inside the high-rise tower that houses the Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency (SAMA), computers kept humming and clerks kept counting as petrodollars continued to cascade into the desert kingdom's coffers at a rate of $320 million...
...peanut butter-on-milquetoast portrayal of the would-be hero. Tireless in an irritating way, MacNicol inspires little interest in his quest; he never seems the least bit ambivalent about clambering down into murky caves and facing off against the 50-foot lizard who has just torched the whole kingdom with a few sneezes. As a lover, he is tepid at best, remaining oblivious even when his ladyfriend mentions at one point that she's still a virgin, and the dragon only eats virgins, and isn't there something they could do about that...
...passes unnoticed among the readers who have made him famous. Only under his pseudonym is he recognized as the Marcus Welby of the barnyard and the author of four bestsellers about an amiable animal doctor named James Herriot. The fourth, The Lord God Made Them All, revisits the peaceable kingdom of rural England, celebrates simple pleasures and, as before, pours time back and forth like sand in a kitchen hourglass...
...cartel's hard-liners argued equally insistently that the Saudis had to help tighten the market by cutting production and raising prices. For the past eight months Saudi output has crested at 10.3 million bbl. daily, or about 2 million bbl. more than the desert kingdom produced three years ago. This is a key reason why worldwide petroleum inventories are now bursting with some 2 million bbl. daily in excess crude oil output...
Three nations-Italy, West Germany and the United Kingdom-are participating in the development and production of the Tornado jet. Pilots from these nations are receiving their initial training in the use of the plane at Britain's Cottesmore Royal Air Force Base. The German officers had their own planes flown in from West Germany for the program...