Word: curacao
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...prospective customer says he expects a six-figure cash windfall soon and would like to bring the money "quietly" into the U.S. At first the banker responds cautiously. "This money isn't, ah, tainted, is it?" When the American assures him it is not, the officer of the Curacao branch of the French-owned Credit Lyonnais Nederland smiles and orders another tonic water. In that case, says the banker, he can arrange a so-called Dutch sandwich...
...Gilligan. The idea is to create a Caribbean state of mind, drawing inspiration from Key West to Trinidad, with occasional wide detours to Brazil and Mexico, and stressing decor and drinks. The palette runs to hot pink, orange and turquoise that sparkles even in drinks made with blue curacao -- concoctions that may look suspiciously like Windex to the uninitiated. Frozen in slush machines, the rainbow drinks of tropical fruits and assorted rums, vodkas and liqueurs sport such names as Bora Bora, Goombay Smash and Creamsickle, and have instant appeal to the Kool-Aid generation...
...world, will shut down this week. The closing marks the end of an era in the world oil industry and spells trouble for the 70-sq.-mi. Caribbean island. The refinery has provided Aruba with more than half its annual income for better than two generations. Writes the Curacao-based Antillen Review: "The chilling truth, that a total economic collapse might well be the country's fate within two years, has at last dawned upon a wide spectrum of the nation's decision makers...