Word: though
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Though Murphy gained the attention she sought, Dukakis' quick countermove took the zip out of her dramatics. The feud further disheartened the Democrats and buoyed Republicans, who see their best chance in 16 years of grabbing the Governor's office...
Analysts offer different estimates of how long food supplies might last, though most agree that no Iraqis will be malnourished for at least a year. Even then, food will not provide the strongest lever for pushing Iraqi troops out of Kuwait. Iraq had a bumper wheat harvest this year and is seasonally self-sufficient in many fruits and vegetables. Much more of the country can -- and no doubt will -- be used to grow food...
...Baghdad, more than 70,000 refugees are trapped in a 43-mile-wide swath of no- man's-land between Jordan and Iraq. Largely from India, the Philippines, Pakistan and Bangladesh, these refugees once worked in Kuwait at jobs the natives disdained: as drivers, waiters and maids. Though never wealthy, they earned good wages and had become accustomed to the air-conditioned placidity of their adopted country. Today they languish in three sprawling, filthy tent cities, called Shaalan One, Two and Three, erected in a sweltering moonscape infested with snakes and scorpions. At least 10 refugees, including two babies, have...
Shouts of excitement greet the arrival of two Jordanian entrepreneurs driving a pickup truck loaded with ice. A brick-size chunk goes for one Jordanian dinar (about $1.50), and the sellers profit handsomely -- though not as well as they might. Many of the refugees are penniless, forced to leave their life savings behind in Kuwaiti bank accounts long since looted by Iraqi troops...
...turned her life into a sad joke, blowing lines on the set and nearly dying from an overdose. To get a new movie job, Suzanne must agree to live with her mother, who has her own abuse problems. Doris needs a drink the way a crooner needs a mike, though she claims she is no longer an alcoholic. "Now," she says, "I just drink like an Irish person...