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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...
...Video-display terminals. People spend whole workdays close to computer screens. The should stay 75 cm (30 in.) from the front and 90cm (3 ft.) from the sides and back. The same rule applies...
...credits and outright gifts and $1.4 billion in technical assistance from the European Community. So far, the Soviet Union has received more than 2,500 tons of goods, mostly food, which are being distributed to children's homes, pensioners, invalids and low-income families; all aid is under close guard to prevent pilfering...
...find suave new twists and characters to propel the plot and lure the teens. Garcia, an electric actor, swaggers so handsomely that he makes one wish for another sequel. But he is helpless to strike sparks with Sofia Coppola (the director's daughter), whose gosling gracelessness comes close to wrecking the movie...
...haven't had too many bad ones, you know." In fact, the First Lady has had trying times: she has ridden the political roller coaster with her husband, seen divorce and financial trouble touch her children, been slowed by illness. Yet she smothers it all with what one close friend describes as her "big optimism...