Word: closers
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Still, the questions Jiang answered brought the president closer to addressing the political concerns shouted by protesters coast-to-coast than have any other utterances during his trip. He spent the rest of his appearance on Saturday advocating a stronger partnership between the United States and China based on a greater mutual understanding of each country's culture...
...What's he got to hide? Chief U.N. weapons inspector Richard Butler says his team was "getting closer and closer" to discovering extremely deadly nerve gas agents ? the American inspectors' area of expertise...
...from being mere nationalistic posturing, then, Saddam's move seems be motivated by fear of what the Yankee experts might find. But he's playing a dangerous game: despite his talk of negotiation, Security Council nations are inching closer to retaliatory action...
...their cultural heritage. Millions of Chinese are abused in prison camps because of the structure of the communist regime, not because of any Chinese cultural reason that suppresses democracy. China is not yet ready for a participatory democracy, but Jiang's repressive policies are not bringing the nation any closer to that universal ideal to which even Jiang has begun to pay lip service...
Investigators are inching closer to finding the mystery car that may have sideswiped the Mercedes carrying Princess Diana shortly before it crashed in a Paris tunnel in August, reports People Daily...