Word: kuwait
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...agents told one inquiring student that the visitor was the ambassador from Kuwait, and later declined to make any comment to curious onlookers who noticed the agents' ear microphones and ominous postures in front of Eliot House...
...second billion had been added, and by 1960 a third. The 5 billion mark is estimated to be only 13 years away, and by 2012 world population could be 8 billion. The country with the world's fastest-growing population in terms of annual percentage increases is Kuwait at 5.9%, the slowest, East Germany at -.3%. The U.S. growth rate...
Yamani was hinting that the remaining 40% would be nationalized within a few months. Yet for all the pressures on the Saudis to move ahead, including 100% takeovers of Western oil consortiums in Iraq, Kuwait and, recently, Venezuela, negotiations faltered-and not only over the amount of compensation. For one thing, the assassination of King Faisal last year distracted attention from Aramco. Then too the companies themselves were unable to agree on some items because of their differing goals...
...assumption is that the OPEC cartel will maintain high prices for oil (currently $11.56 per bbl.). Main reason: Saudi Arabia, Libya and Kuwait are cutting production rather than risk the falling prices that would accompany a global oil glut. Though the FEA study considers the theoretical impact of oil prices of $8 and $16 per bbl., it concentrates on the effects of an average price of $13 per bbl. At that level, no alternative sources of energy, not even such highly touted synthetic fuels as shale oil and liquefied coal, can compete with oil, at least...
...best of times, it was not the worst of times. It was, as Moynihan told us after Indira Gandhi had proved that a Watergate was impossible in India, the year that the United States became the world's largest democracy. It was the year Kuwait surpassed the United States in per capita income and Italy beat France in per capita wine consumption. The year Exxon became the world's largest corporation and the Comoro Islands the smallest member of the U.N. It was the year everyone heard of South Molucca...