Word: saudia
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...from the glory days when every graduate was assured a government desk and a paycheck, work or no work. The 30,000-strong royal family weren't spared the belt-tightening: no more ignoring telephone and utility bills, he decreed, or treating the national carrier Saudia like a private airline...
...Middle Eastern kingdom of Dilmun, a secret and supposedly mythical island of everlasting life traversed by the epic hero Gilgamesh; near Aarhus, Denmark. Using little more than clay tablets inscribed with the legend of Sumeria, Bibby figured the mysterious city to be on the island of Bahrain, near Saudia Arabia...
...role in keeping Saddam Hussein out of Saudi Arabia's backyard during the Persian Gulf War," says defense correspondent Mark Thompson. "The Saudis would look pretty bad if they turned to Europe's Airbus to build the planes after what the U.S. did for them in the war." Saudia, the national airline of Saudi Arabia, will purchase 23 777-200 twin jets and five 747-400 jumbo jets from Boeing, and 29 MD-90s and four MD-11s from McDonnell Douglas...
...were TVs, and then wondered why "Lotus 123" never came on the air. When not laughing at their onetime tormentors, some Kuwaitis poke fun at the desirability of living in their wrecked country. A favorite joke has Kuwait's Public Works Ministry rushing to complete a new highway to Saudia Arabia, with all six lanes going...
...here on some exercise," he told American forces in Saudia Arabia over Thanksgiving. "We won't pull punches." In other words, Bush is ready and willing to wage war in the Gulf...