Word: salt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...award and then gave his hosts a shock that flattened the champagne. He presented surprised officials with a copy of his book, Iceman, in which he described his unsuccessful 1972 attempt to extort $1 million from United Airlines by threatening to blow up one of its jets in Salt Lake City...
Adnan Khashoggi, 48, the jet-about Saudi Arms merchant and investor, along with his brother Essam, last week agreed to pay $8 million for a half-interest in the Utah Jazz basketball team. The Jazz deal caps a string of Khashoggi investments in Salt Lake City. The state's conservative political and social environment appeals to the Khashoggi family, which during the past decade has pumped $77 million into an array of Salt Lake City development projects, including a $600 million downtown office complex called Triad Center...
...basketball agreement calls for Khashoggi to pay $6 million to cover the outstanding debts of the ten-year-old Jazz franchise, which moved from New Orleans to Salt Lake City in 1979, and $2 million to defray operating costs. After dismal performances in earlier years, the Jazz this past season had its best record ever (45-37), won the Midwest division, and made it to the Western division : semifinals before being defeated by Phoenix. That marked the club's first appearance in a postseason playoff. Last week Jazz officials foresaw no difficulty in obtaining approval for the sale from...
...fans wanted to hear her jokes but not her political views. The Lieutenant Governor of one Southern state patted her on the head and said she should be home having babies. "My babies were old enough to vote against him," she says, still burning. One store in Salt Lake City took her books out of the window, "and just before Mother...
...home and a public drinking place." The energetic and outspoken author (two novels plus travel and humor works) peoples her pieces with a lively cast of capital types. Melvin Thistle Jr. from State always arrives late; the elderly Baron Spitte switches place cards if he is positioned below the salt, and bitchy Partygoer Popsie Tribble typically advises, "Remember, you're sitting next to a job, not a person." Gotlieb's columns, in the form of letters to a fictional friend back in Ottawa, cast wry glances at officialdom and toss bemused barbs at her own role...