Word: rebuilds
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What is left of Kuwait? And what will it take to rebuild the country after the Iraqis are forced out of Kuwait? Precise answers will not become clear until allied troops actually march into Kuwait City, the capital, economic center and home to 80% of Kuwait's prewar population of 2 million. Before last week, sketchy reports seeping out of the occupied emirate portrayed a country that had sustained much damage and disruption but was far from devastated. That picture, however, may have been tragically altered by the billowing clouds of smoke emanating from Kuwaiti oil wells late last week...
...There's plenty of money around," Holmes said. "What we have to do is rebuild everyone's confidence...
Shaken by the January collapse of the Bank of New England and earlier bank failures in Rhode Island and Massachusetts, Cambridge banks are taking stock of the changing economy and trying to rebuild their customer's trust...
...COURSE, wars increase production of military goods and increase employment in the military and industrial sectors. Today, some people may have military-related jobs that didn't exist before the war. (And after the war, Iraq and Kuwait will have to rebuild. Perhaps U.S. businesses will be called to do some of the rebuilding, but that means they won't be building...
...ensure that Saddam cannot patiently rebuild his military to its former glory, the U.S. and Britain will seek to maintain sanctions forbidding the sale to Iraq of weapons and munitions or the equipment for domestically producing them. Historically such embargoes have proved very leaky. At the moment, as many as 110 German firms are under investigation for breaking or attempting to circumvent the U.N. embargoes against any kind of trade with Iraq...