Word: covets
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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With war costs to pay off and with low oil prices, the victorious gulf states are not much interested in sharing their wealth. At a recent meeting in Cairo, they asserted the necessity of "respecting the sovereignty of each Arab country over its own natural resources." Translation: Don't covet your neighbor's oil. The statement was evidence of just how worn the ideal of Arab unity is -- the notion that all Arabs are one nation so the gulf oil belongs...
...ruling, suggest that the day of congressional hearings starring criminal suspects is passing. Says House Republican leader Bob Michel: "Congress ought to suppress its interest in public hearings if you want people to go to jail." Presumably, legislators want to punish the guilty at least as much as they covet the publicity yielded by splashy scandal investigations...