Word: though
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Though help never came, Kuwaiti troops put up small pockets of resistance. At the palace, the country's symbolic heart, the Kuwaitis held their own through a two-hour artillery barrage. During the battle, the Emir's younger brother Fahd was killed. The Iraqi force assigned to secure the oil rigs off Kuwait's shores saw the most action. Kuwaiti troops and missile boats managed to sink and burn an unknown number of Iraqi landing craft and escort ships. By early afternoon, however, nearly all Kuwait's guns had been silenced. In all, it is estimated that 200 Kuwaitis were...
Waste managers deny they are picking on the poor. Some say it is simplistic to attribute the environmental problems of minority communities to racism, even though few challenge the evidence that the poor have more environmental dangers to cope with than do the wealthy. Blacks, Hispanics and Asians have often inherited hazards by moving into older sectors of cities, where decrepit factories and other facilities were built long before anyone worried about pollution...
...I.R.A.'s biggest score, though, was Gow, 53, Thatcher's parliamentary private secretary during her first four years in office and a passionate defender of Britain's constitutional ties to Northern Ireland. Although Gow's name was on a hit list of some 100 persons, the M.P. continued to give his address and number in the phone book. Under the cover of darkness, police deduced, a 4 1/2-lb. Semtex charge was attached to the bottom of Gow's auto while it was parked outside his 16th century home in the village of Hankham, in Sussex, 60 miles from London...
State officials respond that such measures are useful, but not sufficient, and that geothermal energy deserves a fair trial. Environmentalists can take heart, though, from the fact that a final master plan for the project and an environmental impact statement are not due until early 1992 -- leaving plenty of time for more protests...
...imprisoned. Saddam did not attend school until the age of nine and later, when he applied for admission to the elite Baghdad Military Academy, he was rejected for poor grades. It was a devastating blow, instilling, say Israeli analysts, an obsession with the use of military force. Though Saddam now likes to parade around in self-designed military uniforms, it was only after he came to power that he could make himself a full general...