Word: creep
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...MARTYRDOM reads a sign by Lashkar-i-Tayyaba, one of the most influential Kashmir militant outfits. DEATH TO THE INFIDELS reads another. Attiya laughs. "Their infidels include all of us," she says, gesturing to her husband and young daughters. The slogans, which started appearing a year or two ago, creep up almost to the edge of her village. But for Larik's residents, Kashmir is as distant as the moon. "We feel sad for what is happening there," says one, "but we don't have the commitment to fight." Attiya and Aslam come from a long line of religious scholars...
...called last year for a “general deflation” in grades and for a return to the tougher grading standards of the late 1960s, said that he has been “exhorting members of the department who haven’t noticed the upward creep in grades to pay attention to what they’ve been doing...
...futures markets were rising before the explosion, and actually continued to creep up as the flames leapt from the tower - initial speculation on CNBC speculated that the plane crash was accidental. Then the import of the catastrophe became apparent, and the futures plunged until the trading day was called off. (The New York Stock Exchange building was unharmed, but dust and debris from the WTC collapses flew far enough to endanger anyone who stood outside.) Perhaps the only reassurance available was the news that Fed chairman Alan Greenspan was on a trip in Switzerland and safe from the concurrent destruction...
...President's approval ratings begin to creep downward...
...Studebaker from his parents’ home in Wisconsin, the seemingly endless steps up the Supreme Court building, his first glimpse of the courtroom, his first memorandum to recommend whether a hearing should be granted for a certain case. Though interesting, the pace of the first chapter seems to creep along interminably...