Word: projects
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Bret Easton Ellis, 26, contained detailed descriptions of female mutilations that outraged women staff members at Simon & Schuster, Ellis' publisher. Did that give S&S second thoughts? Nope. But shortly before the book was to hit the stores, bad press notices finally persuaded the firm to scrap the project and forfeit the reported $300,000 advance...
...impediment -- and planning and purchasing for the future are already well under way. Assisted by about 50 U.S. Army civil-affairs reservists, the - cream of Kuwait's ministerial employees have been meeting quietly in a downtown Washington office building for six weeks. While Finance Minister Khalifa conceived the project and continues to monitor its progress, the day- to-day work is being directed by Fawzi al-Sultan, a Yale-educated Kuwaiti who has been a World Bank executive director since 1984. Every conceivable need is being addressed. Enough material to equip eight hospitals and a score of clinics, for example...
...diplomats in Riyadh assert, however, that such calculations assume a price of $30 per bbl. maintained for a full year and that current prices are well below that. They estimate the Saudi windfall at $8 billion to $10 billion during the first five months of the crisis, which would project to $19 billion to $24 billion a year...
...correct that the problem isn't so much a vacuum of leadership as it is a political brawl for leadership -- among the supporters of the human genome project, the AIDS lobby, cancer researchers...
...make some difficult choices. Is too much being spent on AIDS? Is the human genome project overfunded...