petrodollar

Then of course there's money to be made, particularly petrodollars.

We tried to play the game but just didn't have the petrodollars.

But the company's accounts - and indeed those of the government, too - are already flooded with petrodollars.

And Moscow was willing to offer far more than the petrodollars of the capitalists.

If it were not for petrodollars, they would probably slip deep into the Third World.

Those funds, commonly called "petrodollars," are nearly all invested abroad.

This may have been an unacceptable outcome in the global economy with respect to the flow of petrodollars.

It is absolutely true that the state government, for whatever well-intentioned reasons, wasted some petrodollars in the early 80's.

Awash in petrodollars, Venezuela's government has been on a spending spree.

Three hundred billion petrodollars a year allowed the Arabs to indulge all their old fantasies about running water.

Weakened, it now needs Iran's petrodollars and rockets to regain its strength.

If the petrodollars shrank, there would be less money to "donate" to terrorist causes.

By the 1978 elections, there was a sense among many citizens that the influx of petrodollars after 1973 had not been properly managed.

Our Government and others were unduly enthusiastic about the so-called re-cycling of petrodollars.

"It's Iran and the Russian black market getting their hands on petrodollars that scares me."

That means the new rulers have to share their petrodollars with the people, but they don't want to, they are too greedy.

Now these aristocrats seem to have taken against the arrivistes, with their petrodollars and grand ambitions.

Petrodollars provided urban employment, resulting in higher rural migration.

First they feared the flood of Arab petrodollars.

They went to do the kingdom's dirty work, returning with enough petrodollars to buy a home, a wife, a higher grade of qat.

An oilman offered me fifty petrodollars to blow him in the lift."

Indeed, the company has aspirations to double its business in the wider Middle East, a region flushed with petrodollars.

In pursuit of those petrodollars, many financial institutions have increased their focus in the Middle East.

The petrodollars were invested by commercial banks in the US and Europe.

But the flood of petrodollars which accompanied the energy crisis proved to be Connor's undoing.