Word: hardly
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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When he thinks about it at all, which he tries hard not to do, Ali Basa can remember in detail exactly when his luck ran out. It was shortly after 1 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 28, at a point in the Kuwaiti desert about 14 miles north of the Saudi border. On eight previous smuggling runs, the midday heat had protected Basa's overland enterprise. The Iraqis, everyone knew, were creatures of habit who invariably shunned the harsh...
...past as exactly as they can in order to forget what has happened. That is what we must resist. This is a golden opportunity, the invasion's silver lining. If we give in to sentiment and let the old ways come back while saying that we'll reach the hard issues later, we will never reach them...
...Mutawa. "Everywhere," remarks Ali Jaber al-Sabah, a KPC managing director, "there was the spirit of ba'dain, of 'tomorrow.' Any real change was put off. 'Why bother?' people would say. 'We're making money, the country as a company is making a good return. We'll decide the hard things tomorrow.' But of course tomorrow never came...
...dreams of a new Kuwaiti demography, "is to make it impossible for people to be reliant on others. Most of those who have done the real work in the past will have to go. Then there will be no choice. The rest of us will have to do the hard work...
...still needed, the preferred will be nationals of the countries that supported Kuwait against Iraq. Which means that the Palestinians once more in their history will lose out. "We were welcome at the beginning," says Khalid, a Palestinian who worked for the Kuwait municipality until 1988. "We worked hard to build their country" -- as Kuwait worked hard to support the Palestinian cause abroad...