Mr Biti, an MDC man, says his treasury has received no diamond revenue at all.
De Beers, however, is no longer the diamond geyser it once was.
Legend has it that on his first attempt, the steel blade broke, with no effect on the diamond.
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There is no genetic test for Diamond-blackfan anaemia, because scientists do not yet know what genes cause it.
But Mr Kabbah came back with almost no money and, without control of the country's diamond fields, there was no prospect of getting any.
Indeed, there has been no governmental authority in the main diamond areas for many years.
As for the eurozone in the round, Mr Diamond believes there is no probability of the currency union disintegrating and he stresses that a strong euro would be a force to promote global prosperity.
Last season's runner-up Punchestowns has been given an entry although he is expected to continue a career over fences shortly, while Diamond Harry, who proved no match for Big Buck's in last month's Long Walk Hurdle, is set to make his chasing debut at the weekend.
Last year a disagreement over Zimbabwe, where human rights groups estimated that at least 200 small-scale miners were killed when security forces seized the fields at Marange, came to a head when a divided KP concluded that it had no mechanism to stop Zimbabwe's diamond sales.
It will no doubt go quite nicely with the sapphire and diamond engagement ring that was worn by Princess Diana.
So the question is why on earth no Barclays' manager ever sought to tell Mr Diamond or any other senior executive that for months they had been systematically telling the Libor-setting committees that Barclays' borrowing costs were lower than was actually the case?
Diamond's "Sweet Caroline" makes no specific mention of Boston or the Red Sox, but the team started playing it regularly at Fenway Park more than a decade ago and fans took to it, singing along as loudly as possible.
At her 60th anniversary Diamond Jubilee in 1897, Victoria was feted like no sovereign before her.
Anybody who doubts that the diamond cartel has sustained a remarkable illusion need look no farther than the recent troubles at the bottom end of the market.
Mr Agius said he was summoned to a meeting with Bank of England governor Mervyn King on the evening of Monday 2 July, the day he resigned, where he was told in no uncertain terms that the regulators had lost confidence in Mr Diamond.
While there's no timeline for the release of the song or new material, Diamond has the song on the fast track.
They have no paper trail like cash, and contrary to claims of scarcity by diamond companies like De Beers, there is an abundant, unmonitored supply for the taking.
No physical evidence linked Ranta, an unemployed drug addict, to the crime and the diamond courier testified he didn't recognize Ranta as the bandit who tried to rob him.
The band, which also featured Michael "Mike D" Diamond and Adam "Adrock" Horovitz, sold more than 40 million records and had four No.1 records.
Finally (there's no need to list all 26 companies here), there's Nizhne-Lenskoye , a huge diamond miner in Yakutia in Eastern Siberia, which was made famous by Alexander Solzhenitsyn in his notorious Gulag Archipelago.
Rome was no longer the glamorous city where Clare Boothe Luce, the U.S. ambassador, wore a Bulgari diamond and emerald necklace on state occasions.
If you want to recreate a decadent Diamond Jim Brady moment and order platter after platter with bottle after bottle of bubbly, there is no place on earth better suited for the task than The Oyster Bar.
No more so than Anheuser-Busch (nyse: BUD - news - people ) or Black Diamond, a leading maker of rock-climbing equipment.
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