Word: omar
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...plummeting of the Lebanese pound (down 35% in six days) last week brought renewed turmoil to that country. The plunge resulted in mass protests and the attempted torching of Prime Minister Omar Karami's home. Amid the chaos, Karami resigned...
...Tiger's challenge will be led by high jumper lay Richards, who has already qualified for the NCAA championships with 73" clearance and middle distance runner Omar Simmons...
...perfume business today is a contest between commercial calculation and customer whim, with the marketers growing ever more sophisticated. But there are still a few wild cards in the poker game. This fall will also see the launch of Omar Sharif's signature scent for women, which will come in at $750 an ounce. For this whopping sum the customer gets a Baccarat crystal flacon and two refills a year for her life -- or the perfume's. Who knows? Four cherries and a banana? Or maybe a five-cherry...
...zero cold, rain and snowstorms that left the children shivering uncontrollably. They marched high into the hills of Kurdistan along narrow mountain roads deep in slippery mud, thinking a thousand times that their world had come to an end. The worst moment came at a mobbed road crossing, where Omar and Talia, each with two children, were separated as they struggled aboard different trucks. Omar did not see his wife again for two days, and in his arms was their seven-month-old daughter, weakly sobbing for her mother's milk. Other nursing mothers saved the little girl's life...
...wretched as they are, Omar's family is among the blessed ones. They live in one of the thousands of tents pitched on the steep slopes of the Sirwan River valley, a few miles inside the Iranian border. The Iranian army provides shelter, bread every day, and a crude dispensary gives basic medical help, especially against rampant dysentery caused by the lack of clean drinking water. But Omar's family must make do with only one blanket to stave off the frigid nights. The terrible cold and disease claim young lives every day, a tragedy underscored by the cemetery...