Word: forgiven
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...experience of thousands of Egyptian laborers maltreated in Iraq at the hands of their employers; hundreds are believed to have been killed. Another reason may be the strong leadership of Hosni Mubarak. By supporting the U.S. and Saudi Arabia against Saddam, Mubarak won considerable financial benefits. Both nations have forgiven billions in Egyptian debts, for example...
...Outright Horse Swap. More attractive to Saddam would be an arrangement in which he would depart Kuwait, again apparently unrewarded. Kuwait, by prior secret agreement, would grant him concessions. Saddam could be forgiven the $10 to $20 billion he borrowed from Kuwait to wage war against Iran. Kuwait could lease to Saddam the two islands he covets, Warba and Bubiyan, perhaps for many years or maybe in perpetuity...
Fledgling Prime Minister John Major could be forgiven for expecting his Conservative Party to seek a little harmony after the internal revolt that ousted Margaret Thatcher. No such luck...
Anyone can make a mistake. But when it sabotages a $1.5 billion project, the blunder is not easily forgiven. And when evidence of the mistake is repeatedly ignored until it is too late to fix the problem, then the episode becomes scandalous...
Most everybody wants to live as long as possible. And given the enormous strides made in medicine and the health sciences during the past 150 years, people could be forgiven for hoping that someday human beings will live, if not quite forever, at least far longer than at present. Since the mid-19th century, average life expectancy at birth has nearly doubled: from 40 years to 75. Today many people live past 100, and the oldest individuals have reached either 115 or 120, depending on whom you believe...