Word: personal
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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More difficult than the task of physically rebuilding Kuwait are the problems of equity that will arise when Kuwaitis return. "For example," wonders Khalifa, "what is fair compensation for loss? Assume that one person's house was worth $1 million before it was destroyed by the Iraqis and that another's was worth $100,000. Does the government assist both to the same degree in dollar amount or in percentage or what? What's fair? What will wash...
...nuns knew that many homeless women have trouble moving directly from a shelter into a place of their own, even if apartments are available -- and affordable. A few months on the streets can leave a person deeply alienated and frightened of returning to "normal" life. Through self-esteem seminars, employment training, drug counseling and other programs, women are prepared to return to the job market, retrieve children from foster care and set up homes...
...gets no more than five hours of sleep a night and sometimes only two. He admits that the schedule occasionally leaves him with a "tingling around my head." Even so, he says, "if I live a normal life span, I will have lived 20% more than the average person because I'm awake...
...substantial body of legal opinion backs the view of California Democrat Ronald Dellums, organizer of the petition, who argues, "The Constitution clearly gives Congress the right to declare war. This situation is too grave for one person to take us into it alone." Laurence Tribe, Harvard's famed professor of constitutional law, agrees with this. Tribe dismisses as a "smokescreen" the Administration view, put forward by Secretary of State James Baker, that presidential consultation with Congress would be a legally sufficient substitute for a formal declaration of war. "The structure and history of the Constitution," Tribe contends, "make clear that...
...spunky black woman with cropped hair, body-hugging white shorts and a loose-fitting top: "I got a bag full of rubbers and don't even have room for my makeup." Others are not so discriminating. Says Gloria, 19: "Sometimes business is so slow out there that when a person doesn't want to use a condom, I don't care...