Word: arabia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...text, but the moment -- and the + character judgment it reflects -- is in large part O'Toole's contribution to his literally smashing, if belated, Broadway debut at age 54, after nearly three decades of international fame and seven Oscar nominations (for films ranging from 1962's Lawrence of Arabia to 1982's My Favorite Year). On one level O'Toole is playing off public awareness of his decades-old reputation as a brawling, boozing boyo. As he puts it in an interview -- with a trademark rueful smile, offset by trademark wells of sadness in his deep blue eyes -- the message...
...Texas Co., and by 1928 it was operating in all 48 states. Texaco ventured overseas in 1936, when it teamed up with Standard Oil of California to market Middle Eastern oil. It also bought an interest in California Arabian Standard Oil, which held a major concession in Saudi Arabia. That company later became Aramco, a consortium that joined Saudi Arabia and American producers...
...John Singlaub had helped the Nicaraguan rebels to "engineer" arms deals worth millions of dollars. Calero also declared that his own contra group, the Nicaraguan Democratic Force, had received $32 million from non-American private donors. (Actually, most of that money is known to have come from Saudi Arabia's King Fahd...
...million bbl. a day, and prices later jumped by about $4, to more than $19 per bbl. But OPEC's continued weakness soon surfaced. Last month certain members were reported to be cheating on the cartel's production accord, and prices fell below $15 per bbl. Even as Saudi Arabia worked last week to keep the production agreement intact, causing prices to rise about $2, to $18 per bbl., many traders doubted that the pact would ultimately stick. Few OPEC watchers believe that the cartel will be able to push prices higher than $20 per bbl. in the next...
...current price still provides consumers with relatively cheap energy but is less likely than $10 a bbl. to create economic disaster for oil-producing countries and the U.S. energy belt. One sign that the current price may stick: four major U.S. oil companies reached an agreement with Saudi Arabia last week to buy crude at nearly $18 a bbl. for at least the next five months...