Word: neighbors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...also trying to push the Saudis and the Kuwaitis closer together. Traditionally wary of its more conservative neighbor, Kuwait is now sharing intelligence with the Saudi air force: a hotline from Saudi ground-control systems immediately transmits information from the patrolling American AWACS radar planes. Kuwait could also be shielded from unfriendly fire by what amounts to a Saudi umbrella. Kuwait has no oil pipeline, and the Saudi shield could be vital in ensuring the safety of tankers and thus protecting the country's oil revenues, which constitute about half of its gross domestic product. To calm the apprehensions...
...house do not have crayon marks or grape jelly on them. But motherhood is a sentence without parole-have some guilt with your chicken soup; eat, eat!-and Bombeck and her fans have no trouble understanding each other. "I could move up to Alaska," she says, "where the nearest neighbor is 300 miles away, get there by dog sled, walk into the cabin, pour a cup of coffee and then hear her say, 'These kids are driving me crazy...
Dropping in is what Bombeck does. Three times a week in the newspapers, and twice more on television, she plays the nation's dingbatty neighbor, who comes in the back door without knocking...
...understand the reasoning, there's such opposition and the University is determined to be a good neighbor," said John M. Rosenfield, acting director of the Fogg...
...Continental. The Government-led rescue only temporarily solved the bank's problems. Continental will probably still need to be merged with some stronger institution. The most attentive suitors for Continental appear to be New York's Chemical Bank and First National Bank of Chicago, Continental's neighbor and archrival. Chemical (1983 assets: $51.1 billion) last March acquired Continental's thriving Visa and MasterCard business for $176 million, outbidding First Chicago in the process. After poring over Continental's books last week, Chemical officers privately called the ailing bank's woes "not insuperable," and then...