Word: bijan
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...EEPC report, called "Energy Security Revisited," advocated a $5 a barrel oil import fee and said the conclusions of a 1987 Energy Department study were politically biased. Written by Bradshaw Professor of Public Policy William W. Hogan and EEPC Assistant Director Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani, the report said the DOE miscalculated by $200 billion the effects an oil import fee would have on the economy...
...made up of both monarchists and leftist guerrillas, that Tehran held responsible for the bombings. In London, another bomb shattered a video store belonging to Reza Fazeli, a vocal Khomeini critic. Tehran and the mujahedin blamed each other for the blast, which killed Fazeli's 22-year-old son Bijan...
...Bijan Mossavar-Rahmani is a doctoral candidate at Harvard studying political economy and government and a former delegate to the OPEC Ministerial Conferences. His most recent book, OPEC, and The World Oil Outlook; Rebound of the Exporters? was released by the Economist Intelligence Unit last week...
...head of a European royal family asked me to design a unique gift for a fellow monarch," Bijan adds as he darts excitedly around his store (open by appointment only). "I wanted to make something so American. I wanted to design a gun that people who hate guns would want to have and touch and play with because it's so pretty." So he had a leather handgrip fashioned for a .38-cal. Colt revolver at his workshop in Florence, inlaid the cylinder with 56 grams of 24-karat gold, and placed the gun in a mink pouch...
...Bijan has sold 47 of his limited edition of 200. Among the anonymous customers: a U.S. Senator, three kings, several overseas leaders and an OPEC oil minister. Most have told him that they want the gun as a collector's item, but a few say they will use it if the need arises. Says he: "Anyone who is wealthy and powerful is a target." What next for Bijan? Well, he could always try silver bullets...