Word: kuwait
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
When he walks into a room, Rex Tillerson radiates competence and stability. In a world grown weary of the shenanigans of energy companies like Enron, the oilman commands respect--and earns it--by pumping twice as much oil out of the ground as Kuwait does. As ExxonMobil's senior vice president for exploration and production, he was responsible for 80% of the $11 billion profit generated last year by the world's largest private oil company. The challenge: Can Tillerson, 51, ride that success to become...
...Army isn't taking any chances with the $3.4 million Stryker, its first new combat vehicle in 20 years. Currently stationed in Kuwait, 300 of the Strykers are due to cross the border into Iraq in the coming weeks, but they need some beefing up before they roll. The Army is concerned that the eight-wheel battle wagons are vulnerable to the insurgents' favorite weapon--the primitive but ubiquitous rocket-propelled grenade (RPG). So more than 100 soldiers and contractors have been working virtually around the clock, bolting a 5,200-lb. metal cage resembling a big green catcher...
...while prayer is ushered back in)--while the Arab world despises us as purveyors of secularism. We cannot win for losing. We are widely reviled as enemies of Islam, yet in the 1990s we engaged three times in combat - in the Persian Gulf and in the Balkans - to rescue Kuwait, Bosnia and Kosovo, Muslim peoples all. And in the last two cases, there was nothing in it for the U.S.; it was humanitarianism and good international citizenship of the highest order...
...while prayer is ushered back in)--while the Arab world despises us as purveyors of secularism. We cannot win for losing. We are widely reviled as enemies of Islam, yet in the 1990s we engaged three times in combat--in the Persian Gulf and in the Balkans--to rescue Kuwait, Bosnia and Kosovo, Muslim peoples all. And in the last two cases, there was nothing in it for the U.S.; it was humanitarianism and good international citizenship of the highest order...
...insperable in Russia, because they combine to create power. Khodorkovsky, shortly before his arrest, had moved to merge his company Yukos with another energy company, Sibneft, which would have made it the fourth-largest privately-held oil producer in the world, with one-fifth of the reserves of Kuwait. And Khodorkovsky had for months been courting Exxon Mobil and Chevron-Texaco to buy up to 40 percent of the shares in the new company for billions of dollars. For the now ascendant siloviki faction around Putin - men from the "power ministries" such as the armed forces, police and intelligence services...