Word: qatar
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Petroleum Exporting Countries were faced last week with a long list of things going against them: plunging oil prices, oversupplies, excessive production, drooping consumption, world recession with fears of depression. Even Humorist Art Buchwald was having fun with OPEC's woes. The columnist "quotes" a man from Qatar as saying: "Since the oil glut we've had to cancel four palaces, and make do with three used 747s for our sheiks...
...Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, United Arab Emirates...
...Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, United Arab Emirates...
...customer through a candy-store window. Sometimes the arm can write some impressive profit figures. The Baskin-Robbins chain (whose promotion of bubble-gum ice cream means that discriminating adult coneheads write off its 2,600 shops as hangouts for eleven-year-olds) has oases in Kuwait and Qatar. But Baskin-Robbins, now owned by a European-based conglomerate, started out in California in the 1940s as a two-man operation, with Brothers-in-Law Irv Robbins and Burt Baskin scooping furiously. Another pioneer scooper is Earl Swensen, 69, who still owns his original San Francisco ice-cream parlor...
Bribery in that part of the world, though, can still be a complicated affair. According to a Justice Department complaint, in 1976 two U.S. businessmen, Roy Carver and R. Eugene Holley, co-owners of a tax haven oil company in the Caribbean, allegedly paid the Oil Minister of Qatar a bribe of $1.5 million for exploration rights in that country...