Word: tracked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...creation of an image. The 18-year-old student began brokering sales for a Seattle truck manufacturer. Soon all kinds of businessmen, assuming he was influential in Saudi Arabia, began offering him deals. "My life-style was my only way of making important contacts. I had put together a track record. But that was not enough. I would spend money in order to justify my request to be on prize society and business guest lists. In a few years everybody wanted to be on my guest lists...
...with the U.S., Khashoggi positioned himself to be the middleman between American arms manufacturers and the Saudi Defense Ministry. At Khashoggi's instigation, the Saudis commissioned the U.S. to study their defense needs and make recommendations as to what they should buy. As a result, Khashoggi had the inside track and locked up sales-agency rights with such U.S. firms as Lockheed, Raytheon and Northrop. He eventually won exclusive commissions on 80% of all U.S. military sales to Saudi Arabia...
Once the shipments were under way, Ghorbanifar claims, he made 76 trips between Europe, the U.S. and the Middle East to keep the negotiations on track. When McFarlane, North and other American negotiators flew to Iran last May with a planeload of weapons, Ghorbanifar says, he chartered the jet and paid for the group's stay in Tehran. McFarlane says he does not know who paid but assumes the bill was split by the U.S. and Iranian governments. Ghorbanifar also charges that Khashoggi was cut out of several of the deals on orders from McFarlane. The former National Security Adviser...
...former President Camille Chamoun has long since lost track of exactly how many times his enemies have tried to kill him. As the senior Christian Maronite leader in Lebanon, Chamoun is a magnet for political assassins. Last week would-be killers struck again -- and failed again...
Copycat names (Oakland Raiders, Oakland Invaders) are also popular. After the New York Mets came the football Jets, basketball Nets, the team-tennis Sets and the Off-Track Betting Bets (known locally as the Debts). There was even some loose talk of a water-polo squad to be known, inevitably, as the Wets, and a women's basketball team, the Pets. This sort of secondhand glory is an old story in sports, dating back at least to football's Detroit Lions' and Chicago Bears' attempting to identify with the established baseball teams, the Detroit Tigers and Chicago Cubs. Another kind...