Word: dubai
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that exported Egyptian-made furniture to Saudi Arabia. The company took off, and not long after, al Fayed married Khashoggi's sister Samira, who gave birth to Dodi in 1955. He divorced her after two years and went into the construction business in the United Arab Emirates. After befriending Dubai's ruler, al Fayed won big development contracts for British firms prowling the Persian Gulf. "Of course," says Khashoggi, "there were fees and commissions." This brokering was the foundation of the Fayed family fortune...
...Buckpasser (15) and, the greatest of all, Citation (16). A stone bruise to one of his hooves prevented Cigar from racing in the Santa Anita Handicap last month, so win No. 14 will have to wait until March 27, when Cigar runs in the $4 million Dubai World...
...horse is only days away from his own travel to Dubai, which is a long way from South Dakota, where Mott grew up as the son of a veterinarian. "I located it on the globe the other day," says the 42-year-old trainer, though in truth he has been hard at work on the logistics of the trip for months. He knows that Dubai's track surface is like Belmont's, that the hay there is from Washington State, and that the journey for Cigar will take 18 to 20 hours, stall to stall, counting a refueling layover...
Conoco executives might have recognized the Administration's concerns sooner if contacts between the company and Washington had been more high-level and open from the start. Conoco discussed the Iranian deal only with midrank diplomats at U.S. outposts in Dubai, Kuwait and London, as well as in Washington, repeatedly since 1991--including four times in the past 18 months. Nor did State policymakers ever say they flatly opposed the Iranian negotiations. Michael Stinson, who headed the Conoco project, told Congress last week that "the typical response was, 'The U.S. would prefer that you not do this deal...
...There's no way to afford phone calls to my friends," says Zimran D. Ahmed '98, who e-mails his high school friends from Dubai college in the United Arab Emirates several times a week...