Word: royalities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Royal Street businessman, shrugs when asked if his five "Bush for President" signs will stay up after the convention. "What do you think?" he asks. He calls the signs a "way to welcome people to a town. Put everybody in a good atmosphere so they...
...Lady Di Dry Cleaners proclaimed the establishment to be "cleaners to the royal family." But the business is not near Buckingham Palace or, for that matter, in Britain. Opened last May by Diane Storoni and Gennaro Marinelli, Lady Di Dry Cleaners is a small chain of four shops in the San Diego area...
While moves to upgrade the military have been under way for a decade, Moscow has grown more desperate in recent years. "The acceleration of high technology in weapons threatens the whole Soviet concept of war with obsolescence," says Christopher Donnelly, director of Soviet studies at the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst. Every Soviet service has turned to technology in a faltering attempt to keep up. Though not always state of the art by Western standards, lasers, computers and satellite technology have been brought into the arsenal and forced officers and troops to deal with complex new weapons...
...maintain. Qualified personnel will be needed to operate the new equipment -- at higher training costs. Soviet procurement practices, moreover, are skewed toward the purchase of proven products rather than sophisticated new equipment. "They have no problem churning out tanks," says Jonathan Eyal, a research fellow at Britain's Royal United Services Institute for Defense Studies. "But they do have a problem keeping pace with technological advancement...
...hajj, the season of pilgrimage to the Saudi Arabian city of Mecca, Islam's holiest site. During last year's hajj, 275 Iranian visitors were killed by Saudi security forces in Mecca after provoking riots there. Their deaths prompted Khomeini to call for revenge against the Saudi royal family and led to the breaking of diplomatic relations between the two countries...