Word: kingdom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Saudis could tighten up world oil supplies at a stroke by simply cutting back on their "excess" production. But the desert kingdom, for now at least, is holding output high and depressing prices, ostensibly to force other OPEC members to support a Saudi plan to link the price of oil to inflation and the value of key world currencies. Such a pricing formula would bring about a moderate but steady long-term rise in petroleum prices...
...also spent an hour with King Khalid. The Saudis were clearly pleased by the Administration's willingness to sell them the five AWACS, but they politely disagreed with Haig's contention after the talks that a "convergence of views" had occurred. Declared Foreign Minister Saud: "The kingdom of Saudi Arabia regards Israel as the principal cause of instability and insecurity in the region...
...manuscripts in Hebrew and Greek, the best available then, but 20th century research has turned up texts that are as many as 1,000 years closer to the originals. The ending to the Lord's Prayer in Matthew 6: 13, for instance, beginning with "for thine is the kingdom." is not in the earliest manuscripts...
...immediate predecessor, known after his 1936 abdication as the Duke of Windsor. His pitiful progress from resort to spa was followed by millions. All those awful photographs of the Duchess and the Duke, his skin scalded by flashbulbs, black ashtrays crowding the table like visas from a purgatorial kingdom of nightclubs: El Morocco, the Stork, the Lido. Those craterous eyes, staring off sidelong past the camera into the unforgiving background of history, which would soon reveal him as a dupe of fascism, an anti-Semite and a racist...
...Fanny's twin sons, defied his grandfather and returned to Britain to claim the Fermoy title. His marriage, to Scotswoman Ruth Sylvia Gill, produced Frances Ruth Burke Roche. And her marriage to Edward John Spencer, which ended in divorce in 1969, produced Lady Diana Spencer, the United Kingdom's one-eighth American future queen...