Word: soled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...join his brothers in the monumental rebuilding task. Iraqis had seized 3,500 al-Mulla automobiles; the company's losses from fire and theft totaled $230 million. Al-Mulla's house, which served as the headquarters of Saddam Hussein's occupation overseer, was also devastated. His sole consolation: "They left the silverware and took the stainless steel...
Still, Hachani has declared that the 231 parliamentarians elected in December -- 188 of them fundamentalists -- constitute the country's sole legitimate governing body. He has threatened to take the government to court for violating the constitution, and to convoke an opposition parliament...
Sated with salmon and sole? Tired of tuna? Creative chefs have begun to challenge taste buds with such species as amberjack, cobia and pout. For good measure, some imaginative toques are cooking the sea creatures with ocean-born vegetables: alaria, arame, hiziki, kelp...
...estimated 1.3 million new businesses opened their doors in 1991, up nearly 9% from 1980, when 1.2 million start-ups were launched. More than half the new enterprises are sole proprietorships or microbusinesses with no more than two employees, typically operating out of a garage, basement or spare room. In most cases the entrepreneurs made the choice to drop out of corporate America to become their own boss. But with companies slashing their payrolls in relentless rounds of layoffs, the innovators are more and more likely to be corporate castoffs like Lewis...
After Gorbachev handed over custody of the nuclear arsenal and the codes that permit strategic missiles to be launched, Yeltsin declared himself sole inheritor of "the button," as he called the code box. "There will be only one button," he said. "The other republics are not going to have any other buttons." Even so, he said, he had agreed with the Presidents of the other three republics where the missiles are still located that any decision to use them would have to be made unanimously by the four...