Word: dhabi
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...Great Oil Bonanza of the early 21st century is helping to transform former backwaters like Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Qatar and Bahrain into glittering hubs for business, travel and culture. Still, there are plenty of threats that could spoil this party. For a start, there are the wildcard geopolitical risks that can never be ruled out in a region plagued by instability. In one nightmare scenario, Tehran would respond to a U.S. strike on Iran's nuclear program by lobbing missiles at cities in Gulf states like Qatar that are closely allied with Washington; in another, a terrorist group such...
...human potential by improving education and training, and luring more skilled workers from overseas. The region's ambitions are vast - from the new economic cities being planned in Saudi Arabia to the huge construction projects rising up in Dubai to the renewable energy research being funded in Abu Dhabi. "But can we attract the talent to execute the projects we have in mind?" asked al-Shaikh...
...enters later life, Nouvel is also entering a period of maximum creativity. He's been commissioned to design an outpost of the Louvre in Abu Dhabi, a concert hall in Paris, and towers in Singapore, Milan, Kuala Lumpur, New York and Los Angeles. All of them are intricately imagined. And not one of them will look much like any of the others...
...bought it because I want to be the best in the world.' SAEED KHOURI, 25, scion of a wealthy Abu Dhabi real estate family, after spending $14 million at a charity auction for a license plate that displays the number...
...billion Abu Dhabi is CITIGROUP's single largest shareholder...