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...quench their thirst and stave off dehydration, U.S. troops in the 120 degreesF Saudi Arabian desert must drink up to 8 gal. of water a day. Much of the vital liquid comes from local bottled well water that is cumbersome to transport...
...Henry Kravis were approaching with an ax instead of a buyout offer." Burrough may have hit the peak of fascination with 1980s whodunits. As the 1990s wear on, his agent Andrew Wylie says with literary disdain, readers are likely to become more interested in advice books on "how to stave off disaster...
...Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan and George Bush -- and enshrined in Executive Order 12333, issued in 1981 and still in effect. Within the Executive Branch, that order has the full force of law. So the U.S. government could not legally kill Saddam Hussein, even if the dictator's death would stave off or shorten a Middle East...
Such steps may stave off short-term banking crises, but over the long haul, more dramatic changes are needed. During the past 20 years, commercial banks have been muscled out of many of their traditional lines of business by other segments of the financial industry. Most important, few major corporations still borrow from banks; they float their own commercial IOUs. When banks looked for borrowers elsewhere, they ran into one bad risk after another, most notably the Third World countries. Says Katherine Hensel, a banking analyst for Shearson Lehman Hutton: "Just look at the legacy here. On the heels...
...good as his threat to make sure his Western "guests" suffer the same fate as Iraqis? The Administration's answer is that it would try to fine-tune the effort to maximize the discomfort of Iraqis, and thus the political pressure on Saddam, without causing actual starvation. To stave off a famine, it might, for example, agree to permit emergency shipments of baby formula and grain...