Word: justness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Home now for the deposed Shah is Contadora, an island a little more than a mile square lying 20 miles off Panama in the Pacific Ocean. Part of a necklace of 226 other islands called Las Perlas (The Pearls), Contadora earned its name -Spanish for counter-during the 16th century...
Today Contadora is Panama's star resort, with a government-owned casino and 210-room hotel (average room price: $70 a day). About 80 weekend homes owned mostly by wealthy Panamanians dot the beaches and hills. Palm, papaya and banana trees shade the island, and peacocks and deer roam...
The members did just that. But after the most fractious meeting in OPEC's history-it was a "bazaar" in the scoffing description of Saudi Arabia's Oil Minister, Ahmed Zaki Yamani-the cartel failed to agree on any uniform price. Instead, each country will fix the cost...
The Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, which comprises the world's 24 leading non-Communist nations, also issued a grim forecast, and on an even larger scale: a rise to $26 per bbl. would cut nearly 1% off its members' economic growth, reducing it to...
Just before the meeting began, Iran's Ali Akbar Moinfar announced that, whatever happened, the revolutionary government was immediately bumping its price to $28.50. In a move that topped Iran's, Libya's Ezzedin Ali Mabruk then declared that his government was lifting its price to $30...