Word: riyadh
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...more of a bargain by the second. So many stocks, so little time. Alwaleed sits elbows up at a cockpit-style desk, working a battery of phones. He glances back and forth at a panel of nine TV screens giving the latest news by satellite. At 10:40 p.m. Riyadh time, with trading temporarily suspended at the New York Stock Exchange, he dials Michael Jensen, his starched-collar financial adviser at Citicorp's private banking office in Geneva, who in turn gets on another phone with Citi's brokers in New York City. "At that point," Jensen will later recall...
...RIYADH, Saudi Arabia: He's the Bedouin Buffett. The Donald of the Desert. The Soros of the Sands. He's Prince al-Waleed bin Talal, and he's known for betting big ? and winning big ? on solid but out-of-favor companies like Apple and TWA. Tuesday, however, the Prince's office announced some more traditional plays as part of the Prince's effort to push into media and technology...
...American and Saudi officials: State and Defense department officials have been in contact with their Saudi counterparts, stressing the danger a re-emergent Saddam would pose to their country. Over the weekend, Albright scheduled visits to Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and Kuwait. U.S. officials offered TIME conflicting assessments of whether Riyadh would agree to harbor F-117 Stealth fighters and other attack planes. Pentagon sources considered it likely; State Department officials weren't so sanguine. Heavy B-52 bombers will be based on the Indian Ocean island of Diego Garcia, a British territory on loan...
...killed 19 U.S. Airmen and injured 500 others. His extradition today to the U.S. ends a messy diplomatic problem for Canadian authorities who had feared embarrassment at home if Sayegh had been returned to Saudi Arabia, where he likely would have been executed in an area next to a Riyadh mosque unofficially known as "chop-chop square." --Mark Coatney
...fortune and attained the American Dream through his brilliance and hard work. What's wrong with that? All the more power to Gates and Microsoft. I look forward to the cornucopia of new software and gadgets that they will come up with in the near future. MARIO J. HEMENS Riyadh...