The term, sometimes also spelled PaRDeS, is an acronym formed from the same initials of the following four approaches: 1  Peshat (×¤Ö°Ö¼×©Ö¸××â) â surface (straight) or the literal (direct) meaning. 2  Remez (×¨Ö¶×Ö¶×â) â hints or the deep (allegoric: hidden or symbolic) meaning beyond just the literal sense.
Saudi Aramco. Saudi Aramco is the largest and leading world oil company in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. The company is a state-owned company that was founded in 1933 as the California-Arabian Standard Oil Company and renamed in 1988 as the Saudi Aramco.
The Chinese tech giant that's perhaps best known across the English-speaking world is Alibaba, the world's largest e-commerce company. Yahoo famously owns a 15% stake that's valued at over $30 billion--far more than Yahoo's core business is now worth.