Word: annexation
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...aura of a progressive movement. This war does not," recalls Landes. "Even those opposed to war are ready to admit that Saddam Hussein is a villian--that Iraq was wrong to invade, occupy and annex Kuwait...
Once the DeWolfe building is fully occupied, the College will no longer rent apartments from Harvard Real Estate. According to Harvard housing officer Catherine M. Millet, 136 undergraduates presently live in the annex apartments, which include Peabody Terrace, Botanical Gardens, 29 Garden St. and 18 Banks...
Even if Iraq were to annex Saudi Arabia, a dubious prospect at best, Hussein certainly would not ruin the world economy. Oil sales are a way of getting hard currency, which is what Saddam Hussein wants (to finance Iraq's debt). He certainly wants to sell oil, and excessive oil prices would force petroleum importers to tap other sources of energy, ruining the Iraqi oil economy...
...Miami Beach, Haas transformed the annex of a beachfront hotel into an Art Deco triumphal arch with gargantuan caryatids. In Cincinnati, on the facade of an office building, he simulated a Piranesian cutaway of a coffered Roman temple. His latest creation, on a lobby wall in Boston, is a lyrical evocation of a 19th century crystal pavilion, complete with painted palm trees and an image of tumbling water that blurs into a real fountain...
City Hall Annex, 57 Inman...