Word: sultanic
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...office when they become overbearing. Even national heroes like Winston Churchill and Charles de Gaulle felt the parting sting of popular rejection at the ballot box. Last week it was the turn of Turkey's President Turgut Ozal, who is sometimes known to his citizenry as "the Sultan" for his imperious ways. Although Ozal's presidential term runs until 1996, his ruling Motherland Party received only about 24% of the vote, leaving the President without a majority in Parliament. The outlook, as the winners began to negotiate with other parties about forming a coalition government, was for a period...
Ripley's Scarlett and Rhett are at least vaguely recognizable. Scarlett comes up with a well-placed "Fiddle-dee-dee" here and there, and Rhett remains a veritable sultan of sarcasm. Somehow, though, one gets the impression that Ripley had the Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable movie characters in mind when she wrote this novel. Scarlett and Rhett say all the right things and make all of the right gestures, but they lack substance...
...quotable slugger's triumph, and it would be a shame to see him become one of the legion of golf technocrats who threaten to turn the sport into a boring science. There may be a lesson for other pros in the enormous fan response to golf's new Sultan of Swing: people love athletes who shoot for the stars...
...Arabs often see no need for such records, financial experts say, because they trust leaders such as Sheik Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahayan, the ruler of Abu Dhabi who controls 77% of B.C.C.I., to stand behind their debts and those of their subjects. And they see no need to keep records for the taxman, since the six Arab states in the gulf collect no taxes...
...London court halted the liquidation of B.C.C.I.'s British branches until December to give Sheik Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahayan, the ruler of Abu Dhabi who acquired control of B.C.C.I. last year, a chance to rescue depositors and develop a plan to reopen a cleansed and scaled-down version of the global bank. Zayed immediately put up $84 million to help rescue the 120,000 British customers who had entrusted $400 million to B.C.C.I...