Word: creeped
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...long a bastion of public-sector inefficiency, is today one of the few government departments that is successfully reducing its head count, cutting costs and improving productivity. So, if the truly "normal state of affairs" prevails in France, some watered-down version of Villepin's employment measures may well creep through at some point in the future. France is spectacularly good at saying non. Naysayers are often fêted in heroic, Joan-of-Arc terms; when the student demonstrations exploded in March, Paris Match ran a thrilling cover photo of two young people locked in a dance-floor embrace...
...prepared to dispatch some 500 troops at the head of a proposed 1,500-strong European Union military force in a four-month mission. Supporters of the German coalition government questioned whether such a small number of troops could really make a difference, and warned against mission creep. "The probability that we are not getting out in four months is high," said Johannes Kahrs of the Social Democratic Party, himself a military reservist. But for Europeans who have soured on mass immigration, stabilizing Congo may be preferable to having to cope with thousands trying to escape the fighting...
...glaciers, it turns out, can move with surprising speed, and so can nature. What few people reckoned on was that global climate systems are booby-trapped with tipping points and feedback loops, thresholds past which the slow creep of environmental decay gives way to sudden and self-perpetuating collapse. Pump enough CO2 into the sky, and that last part per million of greenhouse gas behaves like the 212th degree Fahrenheit that turns a pot of hot water into a plume of billowing steam. Melt enough Greenland ice, and you reach the point at which you're not simply dripping meltwater...
...many people in the Tamil-dominated northern capital, Jaffna, do speak very functional Sinhalese. Many Tamils and Sinhalese have grown to respect one another's ethnic identity and language. If only the radicals and the ever pessimistic pundits would let the people decide their future, Sri Lanka could certainly creep back toward peaceful stability. Ashoka Weerakkody Colombo...
...many people in the Tamil-dominated northern capital, Jaffna, do speak very functional Sinhalese. Many Tamils and Sinhalese have grown to respect one another's ethnic identity and language. If only the radicals and the ever pessimistic pundits would let the people decide their future, Sri Lanka could certainly creep back toward peaceful stability. Ashoka Weerakkody Colombo, Sri Lanka Unpersuasive Picture "Abramoff's Kodak moment" [Feb. 20] described a gathering of about two dozen people that included President Bush, Raul Garza - who was a client of disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff - and Abramoff himself. The photo of the meeting that Time...