Word: austria
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Last month State Department officials lodged a futile protest after Austrian energy company OMV announced an $18 billion deal to exploit Iran's South Pars gas field. "The Americans may refuse to invest in Iran's oil industry," Austria's Foreign Minister Ursula Plassnik told the Austrian Die Presse newspaper. "But Austria is not bound...
...CURRENCY 100 Weight, in kilograms, of the Royal Canadian Mint's new jumbo gold coin, which beat out Austria's 31-kg piece-known as "Big Phil"-as the world's largest pure gold coin $1 million Face value, in Canadian dollars, of the new coin. Its current market value is about twice that due to the surging price of gold...
...VIENNA TO ERBIL Austrian Airlines opened Europe's first regular air connection to Iraq (Erbil is the Kurdish capital) in December. Austria's largest energy firm recently began negotiations on oil and gas exploration in Iraq
...pour la France, darkly warned of the "Polish plumber and Estonian architect" triggering "the demolition of France's social and economic model." Before the E.U. admitted 10 new members in 2004, populist fears of unwashed hordes stealing jobs from locals led most of the old E.U. countries, including Germany, Austria and France, to seal their labor markets. In the end, only three of the E.U.'s then 15 countries--Ireland, Britain and Sweden--opened their labor markets...
...France, darkly warned of the "Polish plumber and Estonian architect" triggering "the demolition of France's social and economic model." Before the E.U. admitted 10 new members back in 2004, populist fears of unwashed hordes stealing jobs from local workers led most of the old E.U. countries, including Germany, Austria and France, to keep their labor markets closed...