Word: riyadh
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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George Khoury Riyadh...
...effort to halt the slide, Saudi officials have been pressuring OPEC's discounters to stop their cheating on prices and production. If necessary, the Saudis recently began hinting, Riyadh would start price cutting, offering gargantuan discounts that would drive all other exporters from the market...
...production, the Saudis might decide to raise the spring quotas by about 10%, which would legitimize the cheating with a return to pre-March levels, while perhaps trimming their own output to keep the glut from growing worse. At the same time, the Riyadh government would stand ready to provide low-interest loans to help tide over financially squeezed cartel members until the world economy starts to recover and, the Saudis hope, oil sales begin to improve...
...itself was an act of creative diplomacy. Whether or not the President's plan would ever be initialed at a second Camp David summit, Reagan had reasserted U.S. leadership in a dynamic way, and come forward with proposals that were clearly stamped "made in Washington"-rather than Riyadh, Amman or Jerusalem. It was an initiative sorely needed...
TIME'S article "The Jubail Superproject" [July 12] falsely compares the management effectiveness on the Riyadh and Jiddah airports in Saudi Arabia, one involving Bechtel and the other Parsons...