They want a prime piece of undeveloped real estate to effect a sizeable expansion of the kingdom's school here known as the Islamic Saudi Academy (ISA) so as to enable it to enroll 1, 200 students.
Also announced for the US is the U2 laptop (here known as the U2E), a Core Duo ULV-based computer, coupled with a 32GB SSD -- which cuts down on the energy-sucking without sacrificing performance (or so they say).
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Ahmed al-Obeidi, a graduate of Baghdad's Music Institute, has been playing the drum (known here as the tabla) for 27 years.
Phra Klairung Rujidhammo was recently catapulted to national fame when he was filmed performing suggestive dance moves, known here as coyote dancing after the film "Coyote Ugly" set in a New York dance-bar.
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Speaking in a nationally televised statement, Syriza leader Alexis Tsipras congratulated Mr. Samaras on his victory but indicated he wouldn't support a government that continues with Greece's tough program of austerity and structural overhauls, known here as the memorandum.
That's why Democrats, Republicans, business leaders, and economists have already said that these cuts, known here in Washington as the sequester, are a really bad idea.
What is unusual here is that these payments, known as solatia payments, were made a time when the Marines were officially saying the Haditha civilians were killed by an insurgent's roadside bomb.
Japan-based Takaratomy, better known as a Tomy here in the States, has crafted a unique solar-powered desk adornment that should keep you occupied (or get you on edge, one) while toiling away in your cubical.
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But strong supporters get instead a form encouraging them to use a postal vote, or absentee ballot, as they are known here.
It is thought that Research in Motion, the makers of the "BB" phone as it is known here, has more than 50% of the Indonesian market - one of the few places in the world where Blackberry is still king.
But trade here depends on the volcano and it is known as the gateway to Etna.
The opportunity here is to leverage technologies known to have acceleration benefits as fast as 300x the existing technologies, like Flash memory, which up until recently has been too expensive.
This effort is known as "self regulation" and here is how it works: When having a conversation, we can use up a lot of mental energy trying to manage the other person's impression of us.
From here, head south on the Blues Highway, otherwise known as Hwy 61.
Known as the Anatolian Tigers, it is here that several textile and furniture manufacturing businesses flourished, generating billions in revenue.
The families gathered here are part of a community of about 18, 000 Roma known as Kalaidzhi, who traditionally make a living as coppersmiths.
The particular reason here is not quite the same as either of those two well known pieces of economics but close enough that it is analogous.
Dr Wigley is known as a careful scientist, but he certainly was careless here.
You can read more about the technique, known as ex-vivo lung perfusion (EVLP) here.
Here, I am talking about the case of suspect Abdal Rahman Yasin, also known as Abbud.
Here's what is known: Prexige is a new drug in the same class as Celebrex and Vioxx, the blockbuster arthritis drugs developed by Pharmacia (nyse: PHA - news - people ) and Merck (nyse: MRK - news - people ).
Many scientists, physicists in particular, now upload drafts of their papers into public archives paid for by networks of universities for the general good. (The most popular is known as arXiv, the middle letter being a Greek chi.) Here, manuscripts are subject to a ruthless process of open peer review, rather than the secret sort traditional publishers employ.
The Antarctic Geological Drill (ANDRILL) team, as they're known, has just completed its second field-season here, retrieving an 1, 100-metre core of rock and sediment.
George Washington's troops were defeated here in 1776 by the British, who used as their base an old Dutch farmhouse now known as the Old Stone House.
Donatello also produced the show's most dramatic work, the monumental 2.7-meter-tall bronze horse's head known as the Carafa Protome, the sole surviving element of an unfinished equestrian statue, paired here with the smaller 4th-century B.
It is here that mission control will receive the telemetry from Curiosity that has been bounced to Earth by the overflying satellite known as Odyssey.
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