Word: turn
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...With the tax deduction, it allows young people who've just graduated to purchase cars...[to] have more purchasing potential, which in turn helps the state economy," Bench says...
Since the Gulf War, Taha, a British-trained biologist, has made a career of thwarting U.N. officials at every turn. She is, says one of them, "a consummate liar." First she claimed that her program had been strictly defensive, and then that all Iraq's biological agents had been destroyed. When inspectors uncovered caches of germ agents, she blandly claimed that only a few small quantities had survived. "Iraq has said that it destroyed stockpiles of biological weapons after the war," says Pentagon spokesman Kenneth Bacon. "We have absolutely no confirmation that that has happened. We assume that they...
...bioweapons can be hidden almost anywhere and scientific amateurs can turn them out in a small room in a country the size of California, how can U.N. inspectors hope to find them? No matter what deal Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz may have struck with Russian Foreign Minister Yevgeni Primakov, the Iraqis are unlikely to be any more cooperative than they were before. That is, not at all. Since March 1996, the inspectors have headed for 63 sites where they suspected the Iraqis were hiding weapons, banned equipment or secret records. The U.N. teams were physically turned away from...
...forth at a panel of nine TV screens giving the latest news by satellite. At 10:40 p.m. Riyadh time, with trading temporarily suspended at the New York Stock Exchange, he dials Michael Jensen, his starched-collar financial adviser at Citicorp's private banking office in Geneva, who in turn gets on another phone with Citi's brokers in New York City. "At that point," Jensen will later recall, "His Highness said, 'Buy!'" First the prince supplies the names of four finalist companies. Then he supplies the figure: $1.2 billion. Jensen sucks his breath back out of the phone...
Alwaleed believes the Far East can be hot for at least two decades, but he'll also turn his attention to Africa, which "needs everything." But he says he will not stray from the formula that turned $15,000 into $12 billion. "I would like to be viewed as this investor from the middle of the desert, who comes and adds value to companies," he says. "I get a kick out of finding industries that have spectacular potential. I look for companies that have solid brand names and sound management but are dirt cheap." As the prince can tell...