Word: repairable
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...damage can be surveyed. A lot depends on how much more fighting takes place, and how much more damage the Iraqis choose to inflict on the country as they exit. But the Kuwaiti government-in-exile has hired the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to lead the cleanup and repair operation for the first 90 days. Companies in several allied countries are already fighting for pieces of the lucrative construction work that lies ahead. Estimates of the cost of rebuilding Kuwait range as high as $100 billion. The Kuwaiti government may have to sell off some of its huge foreign...
...Last week the two remaining witnesses to the crime refused to testify. Faced with the sudden flight of evidence, Rand Supreme Court Judge Michael Stegmann abruptly postponed until next month the start of South Africa's most explosive trial in recent years, to give the flustered prosecution time to repair its case...
...tenants are helpless and poor. All landlords are despotic, rich and insatiably greedy--if not "milkers" of property who take the rent money and run, then "goldplaters" who repair their buildings just to raise rents extravagantly. And the Rent Control knights-in-shining armor save defenseless tenants from despotic landlords...
...caught in the rain. Another time it stopped when someone spilled coffee on it. He might have suffocated, but a nurse is with him at all times to provide help. Says George Cushmac, Bob's father: "It's lovely stuff, but it comes with the price of having to repair it when it breaks down. This isn't like owning a Maytag washer with a serviceman waiting to be called...
...escaped from Kuwait; the rest are volunteers. When an exile group in Cairo organized a training program for nurse's aides, 500 Kuwaitis applied for the 120 slots. Other displaced Kuwaitis are preparing for new lives in a liberated Kuwait by taking courses in such things as automobile repair, plumbing, electrical wiring and, for women, housekeeping. In the past, foreign laborers did such work, but the new Kuwait is expected to be much more self-sufficient. Perhaps Medo and Khaled figure they'd better party while they...