Word: kuwait
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shower, and so I grabbed my Union Pacific Railroad cap to cover my greases). I even got wasted once by Henry Rosovsky in front of 700 people in "Japan" class. (He asked for an example of a country with a very low level of per-capita income; I said "Kuwait" because I for some reason thought I heard him say very high level of per-capita income. I can still hear exactly how he snorted, through the microphone of Science Center B, "Hah, Kuwait...
...eyes to be the most formally Japanese. They have the reckless ebullience of decade-old Miyake, and they use the sort of unconventional material (like fishing line) that has been associated with the cutting edge in Tokyo. You can buy them in New York and Chicago, Hong Kong and Kuwait, but, Hishinuma says with some bemusement, they are "avant-garde and not very commercial," so they are not for sale in Japan. "People are afraid of certain outfits," he observes, talking in his one-room studio below a Tokyo back street. "They think, 'This is too loud for me.' " Indeed...
...enhance its security on the ground, the kingdom has fashioned a force called Peninsular Shield with its five partners in the Gulf Cooperation Council. Together with Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar, Oman and the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia has assembled a 5,000-man force stationed in King Khalid Military City near the border with Kuwait. Built in typically opulent Saudi style, the complex can hold 70,000 troops. But its ability to withstand attack is questionable at best. Says one military analyst: "If the Iranians were not distracted by Iraq, the odds would be heavily in Iran's favor...
Elsewhere in the gulf, other thinly populated oil producers are suffering assorted woes. Kuwait, which survived a stock-market crash in 1982, faces a $1 billion budget deficit this year. Yet the idea of cutting the country's generous welfare-state outlays remains wildly unpopular. In Oman, declining oil prices will hold the economy's growth well below the whopping 14% gain achieved last year and will force the government to curtail projects in its five-year plan. Omanis are already borrowing abroad and using foreign currency reserves to finance budget shortfalls. The United Arab Emirates, a federation of seven...
...governments of Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and other countries that back Iraq have ample reason for concern. The Kuwait National Assembly issued a statement last week warning that the war threatens the stability of the entire region. A Saudi diplomat went so far as to declare that his country was in "imminent danger." While U.S. officials share the Gulf states' concern, State Department analysts are confident that Iraq's superior firepower will prevail. Still, the U.S. has warned Iran that any incursion into Kuwait would, in the words of one Administration official, "be regarded as directly affecting U.S. interests...