Word: kingdome
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Awash in surplus oil profits, Iran is swiftly becoming the world's most acquisitive power. No purchase seems too big nor risk too great for Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi as he pursues his oft proclaimed goal of transforming his ancient kingdom into one of the globe's most important nations. Last week reports surfaced that the Shah once again was stalking where most bankers fear to tread. According to aviation-industry experts, Iran's banks are preparing to grant a loan, thought to be as much as $250 million, to ailing Pan American World Airways...
...Real. Their "Appeal for Theological Affirmation" condemns 13 pervasive ideas, all of which undermine "transcendence," the essential concept that God and his kingdom have a real, autonomous existence apart from the thoughts and efforts of humanity...
...Scientist Hartman conjectures, "by volcanic springs." Even more amazing, the folks who inhabit the valley are Vikings, descendants of the old explorers, who live, work and fight just as their forebears did. They also believe that the searchers are the vanguard of marauding hordes who will destroy their little kingdom. In this belief, as in their generally thorny temperament, the Vikings are encouraged by a high priest with eyes that glow golden when he is enraged. He figures the newcomers for infidels and will settle for nothing less than their bodies laid out on a burning funeral ship. Anyone...
...domain. In a territory as large as the U.S. east of the Mississippi, huge patches still remain generally unreachable and desolate. Most of the population of 5.7 million is clustered in towns (the largest: Jeddah, pop. 400,000) or oases. The oil boom is Likely to alter the desert kingdom totally, as the Bedouins give up their no madic existence for a better life...
Life for ordinary Saudis is also improving. Demand for labor is so heavy that the kingdom has full employment, and the wages of even unskilled laborers have jumped from $2 a day to $5. Because most of it has lobe imported from more fertile countries, food is subsidized by the government and is relatively cheap. General home loans are available, and medical care and education through university level are underwritten by the government. With gas selling at a modest 13? a gallon at service stations, it is not surprising that auto imports tripled last year...