Word: aftermaths
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...building of a new Jewish settlement in traditionally Arab East Jerusalem enraged and frustrated the Palestinians. Arafat's failure to cooperate with Israeli agents in monitoring and arresting Islamic extremists or to silence the rhetoric of violence that lends their acts legitimacy enraged and stiffened Netanyahu. In the aftermath of the July 30 Jerusalem bombing that took the lives of 15 victims and provoked Israel's punitive response, relations slid down to the level of name calling. Arafat made matters worse when he publicly embraced a Hamas leader at a so-called unity conference in Gaza. Netanyahu warned that...
MOSCOW: Most Russians would happily admit they have no idea what the National Idea Commission is for. Trouble is, neither does the National Idea Commission. Boris Yeltsin summoned this august group of intellectuals in the aftermath of his narrow 1996 election victory, and charged them with finding out what the big idea was ? in other words, what makes Russia Russian now that Communism's gone? Well, after a year of extremely deep thought, the Commission has reconvened to tell the world: Sorry, we haven't a clue...
...economic links with the mainland represent the most significant factor to shape the short-term future of the territory, which has acquired the new status of China's Special Administrative Region in the historic event of the handover on midnight of June 30. Indeed, it was in the aftermath of the embargo on China that the present economic might was being born. In lack of trading opportunities, industrialists from the mainland realized that Hong Kong's only asset was represented by the manufacturing potential of its people. Shortly, as bigger factories opened and a diversified economy began to thrive...
...have learned many lessons from you, and the chief lesson is love." Giuliani is remembered fondly by many of the families for staying with them all night at the airport when Flight 800 went down, and for personally shepherding assistance and support for them in the immediate aftermath. Still, the Mayor's words cannot take the place of the one thing the NTSB and the FAA have been so far unable to give them: a reason...
Given the airline industry's fundamentals--rising prices and full planes--low-priced airlines should be in first-class condition. They're not. In the aftermath of the ValuJet disaster last year, air travelers began to redefine "no frills" airlines as "no safety" airlines. In the six-month period after the crash, their bookings went into free fall, taking their stock prices along for the ride...