It has also worked out contracts with Uncle Sam to fly U.S. employees in from Dubai.
In mid-June, as the White House was drafting the President's Middle East policy speech, Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal met with Bush and handed him a letter from his uncle Abdullah urging the U.S. to promote a "clear vision" in the speech, including geographical boundaries and a timetable for Palestinian statehood.
It is one of a tiny minority of U.S. schools that decline Uncle Sam's dollars.
Now, a growing number of conservatives and Republicans seem to think that maybe, just maybe, Uncle Milt was right: Maybe the U.S. would be better off if the Democrats controlled a branch or two of government.
But unless Uncle Sam were your biological uncle, or you had relatives in the U.S., you'd have to fall in line behind thousand of uneducated and untrained laborers who do have relatives here.
That supply, second only to Uncle Sam's 92 billion tons, could fuel the entire U.S. demand for 20 years.
Earlier in the day Clinton referred to Kennedy's uncle, when he praised the latest economic data and said the U.S. economy had not been growing so much since the 1960s.
While Uncle Sam is looking for tax cheats in Switzerland and Liechtenstein, U.S. lawmakers are frustrated that the use of offshore tax havens is flourishing in places like the Caribbean.
Moody's, the credit-rating agency, got publicity--for once, not negative--in January when it warned that the U.S. government may lose its triple-A rating within a decade if Uncle Sam doesn't do something drastic about the unfunded liabilities of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.
Sure, the U.S. Government may be, or become, insolvent but remember, it was Uncle Sam that bailed out Wall Street five years ago.
His uncle Kazuo enlisted in the famous 442nd regiment of Japanese American soldiers who fought for the U.S. in Europe.
That is certainly the position of the current U.S. Government, McGrane explains in her recent story on A List Apart, Uncle Sam Wants You (to Optimize Your Content for Mobile).
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Reid says lawmakers are prepared to return to Washington to work on a bailout for the U.S. auto industry, but only if the companies can show how they will spend Uncle Sam's money.
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