Word: tarn
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...about OPEC's ability to live up to its decrees. During a cordial but "extremely frank" meeting, as one participant described it, ministers from Iran, Venezuela and Algeria lambasted their Nigerian colleague for helping to set off the crisis. Citing Nigeria's dire economic woes, Oil Minister Tarn David-West rebuffed pressure to restore his country's petroleum price or to cut its production target "by even one barrel." Said he: "Oil is the life of Nigeria. The Nigerian heart must pump...
...plan for holding the line on prices. But almost immediately after the meeting was announced, a member broke ranks. Nigeria, one of the poorest OPEC countries, cut the price of its Bonny Light crude by $2, to $28, in order to prevent a decline in sales. Nigerian Oil Minister Tarn David-West said the country had to place its own economic health on a higher priority than its loyalty to OPEC...
Labor M.P. Tarn Dalyell sent documents to the Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of Commons suggesting that the government had withheld information about the Belgrano affair from the committee. Dalyell also alleged that British forces were not in immediate danger when they attacked the Belgrano. Clive Ponting, 38, a Defense Ministry official, told the Sunday Observer that he has been charged under the Official Secrets Act with giving the documents to Dalyell...
...Tarn Cuong Paris...
...yellow has paled considerably since the days of "Tarn" and "Bon," and so has the Post's financial picture. This year, for the first time, the Post was overtaken by the News in daily circulation, 271,000 to 260,000. Worse, pretax profits for the first eight months of 1980 plummeted to $78,000, from $3.6 million for the same period in 1979. Finally, because of a tangled financial scheme originally designed by a Bonfils heir to prevent the paper from falling into outsiders' hands, even those slim profits have been drained off to support part of Denver...