Word: rebuilding
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
WASHINGTON -- France and other U.S. Gulf War allies are eager to win contracts to help rebuild Iraq and want the U.N. to lift sanctions against Baghdad so it can resume exporting oil. But PRESIDENT CLINTON opposes the move -- and not just because Iraq remains a threat. If Iraq starts exporting oil, Administration energy experts warn, the price for crude could fall by nearly half, to $11 per bbl. That would spell trouble for volatile and financially strapped oil exporters such as Russia and Saudi Arabia -- and for 60 oil-patch lawmakers, who begged Clinton for new tax breaks...
...American public and private life. Behind all the bureaucratic tinkering is a moral campaign against illegitimacy, aimed at persuading poor people to become stable, self-supporting workers before they become parents. If this crusade works, its supporters promise, it could do more to fight crime, strengthen families, and rebuild the fabric of the inner cities than any other antipoverty program on the table...
...order to help solve the political and economic chaos which followed the break-up of the former Soviet Union, Albright said the United States should continue to contribute financially to help rebuild the infrastructure of each new country...
...defeat to this day. Although the West expected his warmaking capacity to be blunted once and for all, Saddam has gone back to business as usual. In defiance of U.N. sanctions that ban nonhumanitarian trade and clamp an embargo on arms sales to Baghdad, he is working to rebuild his military and industrial might. Helping him are middlemen, front companies, compliant neighbors and Western businessmen eager to reforge commercial contacts with a big potential customer and the possessor of the world's second-largest oil reserves...
...will rebuild the roads, bridges and ports which this administration has let fall apart, so commerce can flow and new companies can grow," he said...