Word: tente
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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From Bedouin tent encampments to the traffic-choked streets of Riyadh and Jidda, Saudi Arabians by the hundreds of thousands turned introspective last week as religious sentiment swept their land. It was the start of Ramadan, the high holy month of Islamic fasting. But Ramadan or not, it was also pretty much business as usual in one imposing Riyadh office building. Inside the high-rise tower that houses the Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency (SAMA), computers kept humming and clerks kept counting as petrodollars continued to cascade into the desert kingdom's coffers at a rate of $320 million...
...mess boy had started them already, lifting the bottles out of the canvas cooling bags that sweated wet in the wind that blew through the trees that shaded the tent...
...lunch time and they were all sitting under the double green fly of the dining tent, pretending that nothing had I appened...
...bill would permit banks or bank holding companies to take over weak thrift institutions. For that reason the bill is opposed by the U.S. League of Savings Associations, a lobbying group for the thrifts. Says a league spokesman: "It is the camel's nose in the tent that would lead to eventual interstate branching and interindustry combinations...
...fixture on magazine covers, were thrown together on an African television safari in 1978. Last week at Long Island's Montauk Community Church, they were married. Tiegs' jungle jaunt had also turned her into an elephant aficionado, and at the wedding reception, held beneath a vast white tent on the rugged cliffs of Montauk, it was evident that the beauty had not forgotten her beast. Over the buffet siding of oysters, mussels and crab fingers stood a glistening ice sculpture-of an elephant...