Word: qatari
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...hundred years, it was. After the Hôtel Lambert was built in 1639 by architect Louis Le Vau on Paris's Ile Saint Louis, the mansion played host to French nobility, exiled Polish princes and members of the Rothschild family of banking fame. But for Qatari Prince Abdullah bin Khalifa al-Thani, who bought the property from the Rothschilds in 2007 for $88 million, the welcome has been far from regal...
...means prices will almost certainly remain high - as will pressure on the industry. As delegates toured the Madrid exhibition hall, where beautiful Venezuelan girls in tight white suits handed out ballpoint pens, and men in business suits drank lemonade at the SaudiAramco "bar," a small crowd gathered at the Qatari booth, made up to look like a Bedouin tent. A band of thobe-clad Qatari musicians emerged, singing and dancing joyfully. The applause was desultory...
...within the global energy industry, which has seen the country become the world's largest supplier of liquefied natural gas as well as remaining a major oil producer. LNG production has gone from zero to 32 million tons annually and is expected to hit 77 million tons by 2010. Qatari oil production, meanwhile, has jumped from 350,000 barrels per day in 1995 to nearly 1 million barrels per day now. Although the fear factor has brought huge revenue windfalls, al-Attiya said, Qatar has no wish for further conflict in the region. "In the more than 70 years...
...TIME: Have you ever received pressure from the Qatari government, the financers of the channel...
...Khanfar: The Qatari foreign minister criticized us in many cases. I consider that an opinion, not pressure. The only asset we have right now is our editorial independence. If the editorial independence is compromised by the Qataris, Al Jazeera will lose its edge over the rest of the Arab media. The status that Al Jazeera has given Qatar is high and very useful...