Word: cashes
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...everyone in Taif is idle, of course. With critical chores to perform, the Finance Ministry, for one, churns almost around the clock. The Finance Minister, Sheik Ali al-Khalifa al-Sabah, 45, known to all as Abu Khalifa -- and to a few close friends as Ali Cash -- is highly regarded among both Kuwaitis and foreigners. "He can sell you the shirt off your back while you're wearing it," says a friend, affectionately. "He is absolutely one of the smartest, shrewdest people I have ever...
...that have incurred heavy losses by joining the embargo against Iraq -- primarily Egypt, Turkey and Jordan but also Syria, Morocco, Algeria and Poland. As of Nov. 30, according to Washington, allies had pledged $13.4 billion to this cause and so far actually paid $6 billion. America has also sought cash and in-kind contributions to defray U.S. military expenses by allied payments into a special Defense Cooperation account. In a manner befitting a computer age, no cash or even paper changes hands; countries merely make electronic transfers to that account of funds they hold in various U.S. banks...
Pentagon spokesman Pete Williams stirred yet another accounting storm last week by declaring that as of Nov. 29, five allies that had agreed to kick in $6.7 billion in cash and kind by Dec. 31 had so far ponied up only $3.6 billion. Two-thirds of that came from Kuwait, which had promised $2.5 billion and paid exactly that much. (Critics nonetheless point out that the Kuwaiti financial empire is worth an estimated $100 billion.) By Williams' figures, Japan had pledged $2 billion but had paid only $476 million; Germany had paid a mere $337 million of a promised...
...Iraqis offered a cash reward for every foreigner uncovered...
...first we believed the crisis would end fast. As the months dragged on and the U.S. forces sat and waited, we began to worry about starving. We decided to store all the food we could get our hands on. Together our group had several thousand dollars in cash. So Imad began to buy up more supplies. He delivered food between midnight and 2 o'clock. On my computer we began to keep track of our provisions. Now we could tell how many cans of tuna we had, how many kilos of dry beans. We even factored in how much protein...