Word: patch
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...addition to the airline's available cash, ample financing has been provided by the Kuwait Investment Office in London, supplemented by a loan from the Kuwaiti government-in-exile. Other carriers have helped too. In Dublin, Aer Lingus has arranged for Kuwait Airways to patch into its computerized worldwide reservation system. Another problem arose when Iraqi troops confiscated large supplies of Kuwait Airways tickets. The carrier will now use tickets with a new design. The International Air Transport Association is making sure that only tickets issued by Kuwait Airways are honored...
...helicopters and small planes, 80 Brazilian troops and government officials have spent the past three weeks dynamiting airstrips used by thousands of garimpeiros, or prospectors. Lured to the Brazil-Venezuela border by one of the world's richest deposits of gold, the garimpeiros have not only damaged a precious patch of rain forest but have also threatened the survival of the Yanomami, the Amazon's largest Stone Age tribe...
...broad economic downturn could inflict heavy damage on both banks and S&Ls. The threat of a such a slump was aggravated last week, when oil prices rose more than 10% in response to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait. Ironically, rising crude prices would reinvigorate the economies of oil-patch states where thrifts have been hit hardest, but the effect would probably be too little, too late to reduce the cost of the bailout by much...
...years, Dale Page has been a cutter of trees, as was his father before him. He may have cleared as much of the ancient Northwest forest as any man. This day he is clear-cutting a three-acre patch of old growth. The area is designated as a possible spotted-owl habitat, but Page has never seen one of the birds. He stands among rhododendron, sword ferns and buckbrush, his body testimony to the perils of his work. The pitch of his chain saw screaming at 13,000 r.p.m. has left him hard of hearing, an upended log cost...
...indictment describes him, Dixon embodied the high-rolling style of oil-patch opportunists. In the early 1980s Congress wrongheadedly tried to help struggling thrifts earn higher returns by liberating them to invest in virtually anything they wanted. Crafty entrepreneurs began building the S&Ls into fast-buck enterprises by sinking money into marinas, golf courses and even uranium mines...