Word: amassed
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...quest for a nuclear weapon has obsessed the Pyongyang regime since the 1950s, when Kim Il Sung began working to amass an arsenal potent enough to deter a feared U.S. attack. Though Pyongyang has made gestures suggesting it was ready to make concessions in exchange for aid and security guarantees, neither Kim Il Sung nor his son gave up the raw material for bombmaking or renounced the desire to obtain the Bomb; in their mind, doing so would sap the country's bargaining strength and make the regime's survival dependent on its neighbors' goodwill...
Aaron J. Greenspan ’05, the student responsible for launching the site, was also the driving force behind this fall’s lecturer-swap in Economics 1010a, “Microeconomic Theory.” Greenspan managed to amass a persuasive stack of complaints about Lecturer of Economics Robert H. Neugeborn ’81 after Economics Department Chair Oliver Hart told The Crimson, “If one person complains and no one else does, we’re probably not going to respond. There has to be some sort of critical mass...
...threat posed by a “murderous dictator” whose oil pipelines his company made millions repairing only four years ago. The secretary of defense can accuse Iraq of supporting al Qaeda while even the CIA has denied any evidence of such a link. The president can amass troops around Iraq’s borders while assuring the public he is a patient man and hasn’t made up his mind. Iraq’s offers to readmit weapons inspectors can be dismissed as “manipulative” while U.S. attempts to avoid...
...school where friendship often intersects with politics, money, status and power. As such, it’s not always so clear how much—or how little—we think of our fellow classmates. And so we amass acquaintances at Harvard, thanks to a combination of tolerance, ambition and Cambridge-specific social demands. In an effort to survive in this cutthroat atmosphere, we keep our friends close but our enemies closer. Rumor has it that Harvard students get a lot nicer and a lot more tolerable once they graduate. Go figure—removed from this academically...
...rest, as they say, is history. In 1995, Mira landed an Academy Award for her breakout role in Woody Allen’s Mighty Aphrodite. From there, she went on to amass a genre-defying collection of credits, including dramatic turns in Summer of Sam and At First Sight, rough-and-tumble action roles in Mimic and The Replacement Killers and comedic romps like Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion...