Word: buildups
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...like a speedboat and a sailboat," said a Navy pilot. "The smaller, more powerful guy has the responsibility to avoid the bigger, slower one." Yet recently, as the U.S. stepped up surveillance flights in response to China's buildup in the area, the Chinese pilots had become more aggressive. "Sometimes they're so close you can see their faces," David Cecka, Aviation Electronics Technician 2nd Class onboard the downed plane, had told his mother. It got so bad that U.S. officials complained. "We went to the Chinese and said, 'Your aircraft are not intercepting in a professional manner. There...
...melting if hit by jet exhausts. Suddenly, concrete sections appeared at each end. Pilots flying along aviation routes past Hainan could see new, jet-fighter-sized dispersal bays under construction. One Cathay Pacific Airways pilot suggested to a Hong Kong official that, in view of the apparent defense buildup, flight routes should be shifted farther from China's coast. Nothing was done...
...these hyperconfident opinions assume that stress is bad for your heart and that scaling back can only improve your health. But life isn't as simple as that. True, there is growing evidence that stress plays a role in cardiovascular disease, both in the buildup of fatty plaques inside the arteries, a process called atherosclerosis, and in the triggering of heart attacks. But stress is by no means as clearly defined a danger as, say, smoking, obesity or high cholesterol...
...people with a more honest depiction of its environmental dilemma. Following intensive lobbying by the energy industry and a policy review by Vice President Cheney, the White House on Tuesday backed away from a Bush campaign pledge to regulate power plants' output of carbon dioxide - the gas whose massive buildup inside the Earth's atmosphere is believed by most scientists to create the "greenhouse effect" that causes global warming...
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