Word: fallouts
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Particularly vulnerable to the fallout of the sanctions is Turkey, which had been getting about half its oil from Iraq. A poor country, Turkey earned as much as $250 million a year in pipeline fees from Iraq, which is among its largest trading partners. Because the location of Turkey makes it a linchpin in the strategy to isolate Saddam, its worries have been taken seriously. Kuwait's Emir has offered to compensate the Turks for most if not all of their financial damages, which Ankara estimates will come to $2.5 billion annually. Because Turkey is so vulnerable to Saddam...
...fallout from last week's invasion of Kuwait by Iraq has already been felt at gasoline stations. A survey conducted yesterday of full-service dealers in Massachusetts showed an average price increase of 4 cents per gallon for regular gasoline...
Whether or not abortion actually affects Souter's nomination will be of little consequence to the political fallout from a Senatorial floor fight. If the issue on the floor is abortion--as it likely will be--the vote on Souter will be perceived as a de facto vote on abortion...
...fallout has spread across the U.S. Michael Foreman, president of a small Atlanta development firm, has vainly hunted for a year for financing to build suburban homes. Says he: "The banks are not only stingy with their loan money; they are downright unreasonable. I have got no cooperation whatsoever...
...meantime, the fallout from Salinger and New Era has had what is usually described in literary circles as a "chilling effect." Publishers are cautious about acquiring new books that may cause long delays and legal expenses. Writers who have devoted years and heavy expenses to a project can suddenly find their efforts wasted. After two decades of research for his biography of Malcolm X, Bruce Perry, a scholar formerly on the faculty of the University of Pennsylvania, is eliminating major portions of his book. They include extensive paraphrasings from Malcolm's autobiography -- a work, incidentally, that was written by Alex...