Word: saad
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...overly ambitious menu racked up losses of $224 million on sales of $379 million last year. The stock has been plucked, falling from nearly $40 to $3. Buffeted by high promotional costs and declining per-store sales, the company announced that its three top officers, including co-founders Saad Nadhir and Scott Beck, had resigned. Boston Market quickly installed J. Michael Jenkins, a veteran restaurant executive credited with turning around the ailing Dallas-based El Chico chain...
Some Saudi dissidents view the recent bombings as signals that violent jihadis--those who fight holy wars--are seizing the ascendancy from Islamic moderates who advocate political reform. "After the Dhahran bombing, there was jubilation," says Saad Fagih, a Sunni exile leader in London. "Each of these acts is a kind of recruitment for this violent trend. It says, 'See? We are doing something.'" And in a country where even politically moderate Saudis proudly call themselves fundamentalists, the fundamentalist dissidents among the majority Sunni could be the greatest threat to the throne...
...have a quote on my desk by Saad, a Persian poet, that kept us going the whole year," Weiss said. "Have patience. All things are difficult before easy...
...sanctions lifted. But monitors like Ekeus suspect he has no intention of obeying the spirit of the ban. Iraq may already be secretly reviving its long-range missile program. Scientists continue to pursue ballistic-missile research, not only at sites destroyed during the war and rebuilt, such as the Saad 16 research and development center near Mosul, but in new facilities such as Ibn al-Haytham lab, constructed near Baghdad. While U.N. resolutions allow Iraq to build short-range rockets with a range under 93 miles, a U.N. expert notes "the same technology used to make a missile that flies...
This signal of sinister hatred has reached outraged groups and individuals around the world. The Sebbagh and Saad murders have become a symbol of the struggle to free Syrian Jews. The blood of those innocent women, shed 18 years ago, was not spilled in vain...