Word: saadiyat
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Except for the militiamen, who were gleeful and voluble in victory, the town was almost empty. Its defenders had retreated southward to regroup. Almost all civilians had fled to nearby Saadiyat, Chamoun's seaside estate, which was also surrounded by leftist troops. Later, a small fleet of yachts and coastal steamers picked up the thousands of refugees and carried them to Juniyah, a large Christian stronghold north of the capital...
...efforts by University of Arizona scientists to grow vegetables in the desert. The story so intrigued Sheik Zaid bin Sultan al Nahayan, that he gave the university's Environmental Research Laboratory more than $3,000,000 to build an experimental "controlled environment greenhouse" on the tiny island of Saadiyat off the Abu Dhabi coast...
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