Word: deepening
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...major figure in the Muslim Brotherhood, a group that has played a large role in the resurgence of Islamic religiosity. Bin Laden, who like most Saudis is a member of the puritanical Wahhabi sect of Sunni Islam, had been pious from childhood, but his encounter with Azzam seemed to deepen his faith. What's more, through Azzam he became steeped not in the then popular ideology of pan-Arabism, which stresses the unity of all Arabs, but in a more ambitious pan-Islamicism, which reaches out to all the world's 1 billion Muslims...
...even though nationalism, suspicion of the U.S. and fear of U.S. domination once seemed to be the DNA of Mexican politics, Fox's drive to deepen and intensify Mexico's relationship with what used to be called, unflatteringly, the Colossus of the North gets nearly unanimous applause from ordinary Mexicans and from political opponents. "In principle it's a great plan that we support," says Eddy Varon Levy, a green card-carrying, part-time resident of Los Angeles who is the deputy international-affairs coordinator for the once-ruling P.R.I. congressional delegation...
...heels - although his strategy for maximizing diplomatic gains seems to depend on taking these standoffs right down to the wire. (Of course Russia achieves some moral high ground if it forces Bush's hand, because by withdrawing from the treaty that girds nuclear arms control, the U.S. would deepen European antipathy for an administration already considered alarmingly unilateralist by many of its allies.) Holding out may also be based on the risky calculation that failure to achieve agreement might prompt Capitol Hill moderates to put the brakes on national missile defense...
...Ironically, if the Berlin discussions were to bear fruit, that might actually deepen the crisis. Without a political mechanism for achieving a peaceful end to Israel's occupation of the West Bank and Gaza and creating a viable Palestinian state in those territories, there's no incentive for Arafat or any other Palestinian leader to make peace with Israel. And, of course, no Israeli leader could afford to withdraw from the occupied territories without cast-iron guarantees of Israeli security. Those two premises formed the very foundation of the Oslo peace process, and Oslo's collapse does nothing to change...
...production 4% to prop prices. In Europe, the single-currency system called the euro may be fighting for its survival if stagflation continues to cripple the region. And in Asia, Japan's new Prime Minister is struggling to carrying out his ambitious reform to revive economic growth. Failure will deepen Japan's coma and take Asia with...