Word: dormant
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...unquestioned, but its corporations have generally been reluctant to share their secrets - especially with potential competitors in countries such as China - and so far there's little evidence that Tokyo will be leaning hard on the private sector. The country also has its own environmental problems - with its long-dormant economy back in gear, carbon emissions are rising fast, and Japan will be hard-pressed to meet the Kyoto targets that were negotiated in its backyard. "Japan is moving in a very troublesome direction," says Mie Asaoka, an activist with the Kyoto-based environmental group Kiko Network...
...devastation if Iraq divided into a federation or imploded into disparate ethnic states, since the territory dominated by their ethnic group was thought to be the only one without large reserves of oil. (Both the Shi'ite south and Kurdish north have productive fields.) "The Western desert has lain dormant," says Colin Lothian, senior analyst on Middle East energy for Wood Mackenzie, an international energy research and consultancy. "It's not out of the realm of possibility...
...hope he arouses the fire that's dormant in the innermost recesses of my soul.' ICHIRO SUZUKI, baseball player for the Seattle Mariners, about facing fellow Japanese player Daisuke Matsuzaka, a pitcher for the Boston...
...hope he arouses the fire that's dormant in the innermost recesses of my soul.' ICHIRO SUZUKI, player for the Seattle Mariners, about facing fellow Japanese player Daisuke Matsuzaka, pitcher for the Boston...
...first began in the early ‘70s. One wave ended in 1975, then another seven years later. And for more than two decades, it lay dormant, until, in 2003, it hit again...