Word: lande
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...made his first billion or so out of a $15,000 gift from his father. Talal had also given his son a house worth $1.5 million, which Alwaleed mortgaged to raise capital. Along the way, he used some of the money to play that favorite game of Saudi royalty, land speculation, and quickly turned a $150,000 investment into a $2 million profit...
...spent the first 29 years of his life in Communist China, including five years of service in the army. He was a boy of 10 when the Cultural Revolution erupted in 1966, spreading fanaticism and witch hunts across the land. That is the world--and rampaging ideologues are some of the people--portrayed in the 12 stories that make up his second collection, Under the Red Flag (University of Georgia Press; 207 pages...
...trapped between competing loyalties. On her deathbed, his aged mother has begged him not to have her remains cremated; at the same time, the party is waging a nationwide campaign in favor of cremations so that burials of the dead will not use up more of China's arable land. Clearly, Ding's dilemma calls for a meeting of local party officials, some of whom are his enemies. Follow your conscience, they advise the bereaved and now relieved son, who has already arranged for his mother's coffin. A trap, says his friend: "If you bury your mother tomorrow morning...
Mathews argued that the future will bring "enormously increased power to non-state actors." She said that the increased powers of these "new entities" was highlighted by the recent land-mine treaty...
...Armed with this knowledge, President Clinton stepped up his attack on Iraq?s refusal to grant inspectors access to 68 palaces, presidential compounds and VIP residences. "Some of them actually encompass more land than Washington, D.C., does," Clinton said at the Asia-Pacific summit in Vancouver...