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...popular touch can be useful as Abdullah goes about tackling entrenched problems. During Fahd's 20-year reign, government spending soared, while oil revenues declined from $40 per bbl. in 1980 to about $20 today. Abdullah has set out to shake the kingdom of its dependence on oil, which produces 70% of the nation's wealth. He has spearheaded the most significant attempt at economic restructuring in the kingdom's history, opening negotiations with American and other Western energy powers on a $100 billion foreign-investment project to develop natural gas and build related electricity and water-desalination plants...
...nearby village. The book becomes as cherished as any work of Dickens in Waugh's A Handful of Dust. For when Luo reads and then retells the story to a dazzling but illiterate Chinese seamstress, she falls in idyllic love with both him and Balzac. Youthful passions reign, and the lovers and the narrator find themselves beset with the ultimate woe of literary teenage coupling: pregnancy. But after reading additional Balzac works such as Old Go, as Père Goriot was titled in Chinese, and Eugénie Grandet - along with forbidden translations of the Gallic staples Jean-Christophe...
...reign is over...
...democratic process. But the danger is that these observers can give the elections an air of legitimacy. If they call Zimbabwe’s election fair in light of the corruption and tampering of the past months, they will only be helping to perpetuate Mugabe’s undemocratic reign. Saddam Hussein also knows that world pressure is mounting to remove sanctions from his country, and that if the inspectors do not find anything quickly, they will be under intense international pressure to declare that Iraq has no such programs. Sanctions will then be lifted, bolstering Hussein?...
...back like that after a disappointing loss shows the resiliency of this team and the bonds that we have formed,” Rechul said. “If we take this sense of team and show it on the mats at the EIWAs, I am certain we will reign victorious...