Word: royalities
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...office on the top floor of Widener, Eliot Professor of Greek Literature Emeritus John H. Finley '25 has also continued to work regularly since his retirement in 1975. Amidst his cluttered desk and a collection of yellowing photographs, Finley, 83, either reads, or writes on his manual Royal typewriter, which he purchased years ago during his tenure as Eliot House Master...
Throughout his life he has played up his closeness to the Saudi royal family. Lately there have been rumors that Khashoggi is out of favor in Riyadh, but he adamantly denies them. "Having heard so much revolutionary rhetoric, I can really appreciate what the Saudi government did for its people," he says. "King Fahd is the real revolutionary, after all. It takes a revolutionary to rule by common sense and compassion in the midst of turmoil...
...350th Office to preselect if they feel that choosing people with whom the Prince would have something in common will make his visit more enjoyable," said Coletta, who did get to meet His Royal Highness...
...result was a windfall for customers, for a change, rather than for the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. Crude prices plummeted from $26 per bbl. in January to below $10 in April and remained under $15 for most of the year. The low prices distressed the Saudi royal family and provoked anger from other OPEC countries, prompting the Saudis in October to oust Yamani as Oil Minister after he had spent two decades as a leading OPEC strategist. With that, the Saudis abandoned their price-war tactics. When OPEC met in December, twelve of its 13 members, with Iraq dissenting...
During the final years of his "constitutional authoritarianism," Marcos had effectively moved his country backward -- from democracy to autocracy, from prosperity to poverty, from general peace to a widespread Communist insurgency. Treating the national treasury as if it were their personal checking account, the royal couple had looted their land of perhaps $5 billion. "Here in the Philippines," said Imelda, "we live in a paradise. There are no poor people as there are in other countries." Even as she spoke, seven in every ten Filipinos were living below the poverty level...