Word: kingdom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...August," wrote English Commentator Horace Cox in 1872, "you could catch nine-tenths of the genius and glory of Great Britain." The reason for this grandiose concentration in Scotland is the wily, toothsome red grouse, Lagopus scoticus, which exists only in the wild state and only in the United Kingdom (particularly on the heathery moors of the north). The grouse season opens on the "Glorious Twelfth" of August and lasts until Dec. 10. For marksmen, or "guns," as well as for gourmets, it is like a prolonged Thanksgiving...
...push Congress to erect new barriers. Indeed, the General Accounting Office is expected to recommend next month that Congress reinstate the moratorium. That would limit the activities of British banks in the U.S. at a time when the international branches of major American banks are aggressively attacking the United Kingdom market. The British will doubtless argue that any moves to block their development in the U.S. would just not be cricket...
Titus Andronicus (William Hutt), doughtiest general of the Roman state, has come home with his Gothic captives. Turning aside the proffered imperial crown, he bestows it on Saturninus (Jack Wetherall), an odious opportunist though royal in lineage. Titus prefigures Lear's foolish error in dividing up his kingdom...
Visiting Brazil, a country in which doing something as simple as giving bread to a worker on strike can be a political act, Pope John Paul II last week did his work in the shadow of two Christs: the passive Christ who said, "My kingdom is not of this world," and the active Christ who called upon all mankind to "love thy neighbor as thyself...
...Wall Street of Michael Thomas' first novel knows all about bears and bulls. It is soon to learn about camels. The Kingdom, a Middle Eastern country easily confused with Saudi Arabia, has a problem: too much money and not enough closet space. What should it do with the endless trunkloads of dollars it exchanges for limitless barrels of oil? After all, the Kingdom feels the pinch of inflation too: every time it raises the price of crude, its dollars depreciate. Everyone is caught in a viscous circle-until the entrance of David Harrison, American freelance financial adviser, connoisseur...