Word: compounding
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...head TF was relentless, though, awakening the editor Monday morning with a phone call demanding that she drop the course. To compound the problem, the head TF's English was not the best, leading to a long and convoluted conversation in which the editor informed the TF that she was trying to drop the course...
...Good Son, the director taps yet another nasty, not entirely uncommon fantasy. What if a child's normal mischievousness -- a compound of forgivable prankishness, a bit of secretiveness, some expectable sibling rivalry -- is not just a boyish phase? What if it is actually the first sprouting of a very bad seed? Meet Henry Evans (Macaulay Culkin). Who would believe that polite, sweet-smiling Henry is actually the devil's spawn? Not his doting parents, who are still grieving over the presumably accidental death of his younger brother. Not his visiting cousin Mark (Elijah Wood), who is also in mourning...
This will continue to compound the dilemma facing many Catholics--how to reconcile rigid doctrinal teachings with prevailing social norms and the demands of modern life...
...results were visible in the tracer fire illuminating Mogadishu's sky. This time the U.N. was one of the combatants. For four nights the Somalian capital echoed with deafening explosions as U.S. AC-130H ground-support planes and Cobra attack helicopters pounded the capital. Aidid's compound, arms caches and other locations took withering fire. Before U.N. ground forces advanced on his main base, a loudspeaker truck gave his gunmen several warnings to surrender. But soldiers came under fire as they moved in, provoking heavy retaliation from...
...were killed. In his regular Saturday-morning radio broadcast, President Clinton said that the action was "essential to send a clear message to the armed gangs." That message was pounded home shortly after midnight on Sunday when a second air assault fired on an area near Aidid's private compound...