Although he later profited handsomely from his investment and now owns less than 10 percent of Citicorp, some banking executives continue to contend the deal was orchestrated by the US Federal Reserve and was a token of official Saudi gratitude.
Jan Kubis, the top United Nations official here, expressed gratitude for the "quick actions" of the Gurkha guards as well as the Afghan police.
If official expressions of gratitude were a long time coming, the men were buoyed from messages of support from all over the world, some of which decorate a huge Japanese flag that hangs in the Fukushima Daiichi central control room.
ULAN BATOR, Mongolia, Oct. 22 - Mongolia has 131 soldiers in Iraq, and on Saturday it received an official American statement of gratitude from Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld.
In gratitude, town officials gave him land.
In a statement to festival officials, he expressed his gratitude to fellow film-makers: "In the most desperate moments of my imprisonment..
The president, Sheik Zayed bin Sultan al-Nahayan, who was in a Cleveland hospital for kidney transplant surgery and a fractured hip, sent two $15,000 checks to West Elementary School in Newcomerstown, Ohio, to show his gratitude, school officials told The Columbus Dispatch.
Side-stepping his official role, he expressed his gratitude for the "kindness of the Brazilian people" and declared it: "important that the elected authorities and political parties listen to the voice on the streets".
But officials at City Hall, while expressing gratitude, displayed an air of wariness, too.
In Coventry, 32-year-old Nor also expresses gratitude to the officials who took her from a refugee camp in Lebanon.
