Word: disquietment
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...three suspected I.R.A. activists were arrested in Colombia after reportedly sharing their talents for urban terrorism with left-wing guerrillas there. All this makes Ulster's pro-British unionists fear that republicans could return to full-scale violence if they thought it would profit their cause. Growing unionist disquiet about the I.R.A.'s true aims has led British Prime Minister Tony Blair to prepare a warning for the I.R.A. and other armed groups this week. O'Neill's apology was a clever way of heading off some of that pressure, and some saw it as just a P.R. ploy...
...possibility that can easily be dismissed. The Taliban learned their lessons in strategy and tactics from the mujahedeen, who learned from the CIA. They're extremely sophisticated, infinitely more so than the Northern Alliance. So there is a little disquiet over the fact that an advance expected to be so bloody has proved to be a little too easy...
...outlook (and the answer) is very different. The creation of genetically modified foods - like drought-resistant corn, for example, or super-nutritional rice - holds enormous promise for developing nations. But even as scientists develop GM crops with ever-increasing precision and skill, there is growing concern that first world disquiet over food safety and genetic engineering may slow or even stop the dissemination of bountiful GM crops to the countries where they are most needed...
...Palestinian population that has lost upwards of 150 people in five weeks, for Israelis the loss of three soldiers in a combat situation in the West Bank came as a shock. Compounded by a terrorist bombing in the heart of Jerusalem, that will fuel the fires of popular disquiet stoked by the opposition Likud party in the hope of toppling Barak's minority government. To be sure, the killings may overshadow a peace pact brokered by Peres, a man widely disdained even in his own party as a dovish elitist. Israel's response to the uprising may have been condemned...
...that growing disquiet add the recurrence of warfare and terrorism in the Middle East last week. Result: a full-fledged panic on Wall Street. By the time the rout ended, the Dow Jones average had plunged 379 points on Thursday and the tech-heavy NASDAQ index stood at its lowest level of the year. Though both markets rebounded on Friday, that did little to dispel the underlying unease that the economy may be a Ford Explorer speeding along on Firestones...