Word: slanting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Kurtz, whose 15-year-old company, A New Slant, caters mainly to corporate clients, apparently had a low opinion of Bernard...
Melconian, whom some regard as a front-runner, is advertising her "insider" slant in a field of relative newcomers. "She can go in and be effective on day one," says campaign manager John Dellvolpe. Melconian is banking on her nine and one-half years on Capitol Hill as a legislative assistant for former U.S. House Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill Jr. and her 9-year stint as state senator...
...well as himself, the zeal of Khomeini's revolutionaries. He wanted higher oil prices; instead, production in the gulf went up, and his revenues went down. He wanted to lease islands for ports and loading berths on the gulf from Kuwait; no deal. All the while, Kuwait was slant-drilling oil out of a field that crosses the border between it and Iraq, and his rich neighbors were pestering him to repay the billions he had borrowed to fight a war that served their interests. Frustration led to rage. In fact, Saddam's grudge against Kuwait had been festering...
...Hague. In this scenario, Saddam would pull out fully, ! supposedly without conditions but with the understanding that Iraq and Kuwait would then take their territorial conflicts to the World Court for arbitration. If Saddam can produce proof of his claims that Kuwait encroached on Iraqi territory and used slant-drilling technology to take more than its share from the baguette-shaped Rumaila oil field, which straddles the two countries, he could win compensation...
...partial-pullout scenario contemplates Saddam retreating to the northern third of Kuwait, an area of few people but some oil. The Rumaila field, whose southern tip reaches into Kuwait, has long been a sore point for Baghdad. Saddam has accused Kuwait of slant drilling -- siphoning oil from the Iraqi portion of the field through equipment located in Kuwait, an allegation the Kuwaitis deny. "Do you want to know what would probably happen if Saddam retreated to that remote part of Kuwait?" asks a White House aide. "The coalition not only wouldn't go to war to drive Iraq...