Word: containers
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...major shock" to Israel. "This disrupted 15 years of Israeli policy based on working with the international coalition to pressure Iran to drop its nuclear weapons program through sanctions and the threat of military action, if necessary. Within two weeks, the momentum of the sanctions regime to contain Iran was suddenly reversed...
...France, and Europe in general, represent an extraordinary breeding ground for culture and probably contain the greatest density of creators and thinkers in the world. Michel Serres, René Girard, Julia Kristeva and others are accepted as authorities in many American universities...
...when the invading Brits set the White House on fire. (Dolley Madison had to smuggle out the famous Gilbert Stuart portrait of George Washington before the British troops got to the mansion.) Only the outside walls remained standing - and that was probably because of a timely thunderstorm that helped contain the fire. Scorch marks from that blaze are still apparent in some walls in the White House...
...magazines. They know how to throw a party. Double the number of nomination slots for movies, from the Motion Picture Academy's quintet to 10 - five dramas and five comedies or musicals. (Indeed, so rich was this year's bounty of films that the voters couldn't even contain their finalists to a list of five; they made room for seven nominees on the drama list.) More important, increase the number of nominated movie stars - sorry, actors - from 20 to 30. And forget citations for cinematographers, sound editors, makeup artists, that crowd. They're the little people; the HFPA wants...
...extravagance and very strange. Bush acknowledged that he had first heard in August that a new intelligence analysis of Iran's nuclear-bomb program was imminent, but - and here comes the strange part - he hadn't bothered to ask the Director of National Intelligence, Mike McConnell, what it might contain. "If that's true," Senator Joe Biden opined soon after, "then this is ... one of the most incompetent Presidents in modern American history...