Word: 12th
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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While Kuwait's investments bring in about $20 million a day, the economy-in- exile is driven by another engine as well, the Kuwait Petroleum Corp., the world's 12th largest oil company. From its London office on New Bond Street, KPC and its subsidiaries own and operate a fleet of tankers, oil and gas exploration companies in 22 countries on five continents, and 6,500 Q8 gas stations situated throughout Europe...
...Beijing Intermediate People's Court, the prosecutions have so far proceeded with little official fanfare. The government may be calculating that concern for the detainees will eventually fade, as it did for Wei Jingsheng, 40, an activist during the Democracy Wall movement of 1978-79, who is marking his 12th year behind bars...
...everything that she dislikes in the church, Ranke- Heinemann follows a path already well trod by Protestants, historians and other feminists. However, she displays a polemical and sarcastic flair ("theology increasingly became the business of bachelors") and merrily marshals rather selective evidence of priestly misogyny through the ages. One 12th century divine urged men to remember that a pretty woman starts as "a foul-smelling drop of semen" and is destined to be "food for worms." Ranke- Heinemann's acerbic wit is less impressive when she turns to the modern era. She cannot, for instance, bring herself to acknowledge Pope...
January Really Is Exam Month: With a win and a loss last weekend, the Crimson slipped a few notches in the national rankings. While falling to 12th in The Albany-Times Union poll, Harvard also let St. Lawrence, currently second in the ECAC, climb a bit closer in the league standings...
...party leadership from Edward Heath 15 years ago, Thatcher was shown to be vulnerable. In Paris she had celebrated the end of the cold war and the start of "a new era of Europe." Returning to London, the Prime Minister was determined that her own era, in its 12th year, would not end quite so soon. She was not ready to write her memoirs, Thatcher said, vowing to "fight on. I fight to win." But this time the Prime Minister found her troops deserting all around her. In the end, Thatcher, who had once quipped to fainthearted Tories...