Word: khalifas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...everyone in Taif is idle, of course. With critical chores to perform, the Finance Ministry, for one, churns almost around the clock. The Finance Minister, Sheik Ali al-Khalifa al-Sabah, 45, known to all as Abu Khalifa -- and to a few close friends as Ali Cash -- is highly regarded among both Kuwaitis and foreigners. "He can sell you the shirt off your back while you're wearing it," says a friend, affectionately. "He is absolutely one of the smartest, shrewdest people I have ever...
Although born into the ruling Sabah family, which now numbers about 1,000 extended relatives, Khalifa worked his way up through various jobs in the Finance and Oil ministries. Over the past 12 years he has held each of those crucial Cabinet portfolios several times, and was once minister of both simultaneously...
...will reach U.S. bookstores. The initial printing (125,000 copies) is large for a children's book, which is what Haroun and the Sea of Stories at first appears to be. But hold on. The tale seems eerily parallel to Rushdie's predicament. There is a storyteller named Rashid Khalifa, also known as the Shah of Blah, who loses the gift of the gab and can no longer entertain. What's worse, his condition is mysteriously linked to a fanatic cult that wants to wipe out not only made-up tales but also human speech. Children may take all this...
Kuwait Petroleum has moved even more aggressively than Aramco into refining and marketing. Kuwait bought Gulf's refining and marketing operations in Europe in 1983, and recently launched an exploration and marketing campaign in the Far East, beginning with Thailand. Brags Kuwait's Sheik Ali Khalifa Al- Sabah, who recently switched posts from Oil Minister to Finance Minister: "We will be flying our colors in other countries soon. We expect to find many new opportunities in Eastern Europe, and if an opportunity arises in the U.S., we will look seriously at that...