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OPEC

  1. Acronym of Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries.
    • 1980 July, Frank Herbert, “Dune Genesis”, in Omni[1], volume 2, number 10, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 74, column 1:
      Yes there are analogs in Dune of today’s events—corruption and bribery in the highest places, whole police forces lost to organized crime, regulatory agencies taken over by the people they are supposed to regulate. The scarce water of Dune is an exact analog of oil scarcity. CHOAM is OPEC.
    • 1988, Jeffrey Robinson, “The Birth of Opec and the Rise of Yamani”, in Yamani: The Inside Story[2] (Biography/History), New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, published 1989, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 54:
      It was obvious that, if Opec was going to survive much longer, it had to be taken seriously by the world’s major oil companies. So Yamani decided, if the mountain won’t come to Muhammad, Opec had somehow to impose its presence on the oil companies.

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