Word: dormant
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...your story had read "Why They Kill Each Other" instead of "Why They Hate Each Other." I am a Shi'ite Muslim, and I do not hate Sunnis. Millions of Sunnis and Shi'ites are like me. We are the silent majority. Ignorance and intolerance have helped ignite old dormant prejudices and led to sectarian and hatred killings. Provided that regional political and military troubles are resolved, it will take generations and new systems of education to make religious and political leaders preach progress, tolerance, care and love among all human beings, whether they are Muslim, Christian, Jewish, Hindu...
...your story had read "Why They Kill Each Other" instead of "Why They Hate Each Other." I am a Shi'ite Muslim, and I do not hate Sunnis. Millions of Sunnis and Shi'ites are like me. We are the silent majority. Ignorance and intolerance have helped ignite old dormant prejudices and led to sectarian and hatred killings. Provided that regional political and military troubles are resolved, it will take generations and new systems of education to make religious and political leaders preach progress, tolerance, care and love among all human beings, whether they are Muslim, Christian, Jewish, Hindu...
Witnesses say they informed IRS investigators that Gerber had begun storing cash in dormant bank accounts that were unlikely to be examined during a routine audit. Money transfers out of the university system were masked by fictional purchases of equipment. One piece of machinery was billed at $500,000, despite the fact that the top of the line in its category costs $60,000. The person for whom the equipment was ordered never received it. The department regularly processed reimbursements for conferences that never existed. The department was able to get away with the irregularities because...
...International Journal of Surgery, hypothesizes that African-American women are more likely to die of breast cancer because they are more likely to undergo surgery at a young age to remove cancerous tumors. That surgery may in fact exacerbate the cancer by unleashing agents into the body, inflaming previously dormant tumors elsewhere. “Sometimes surgery to remove a primary tumor can kick-start a dormant disease,” said Lecturer on Surgery Michael W. Retsky, the paper’s chief author. Doctors have long observed an increased likelihood of relapse among breast cancer patients...
Worse, there are clear signs that Iraq's malice has an echo in other parts of the Middle East, exacerbating existing tensions between Sunnis and Shi'ites and reanimating long-dormant ones. In Lebanon, some Hizballah supporters seeking to topple the government in Beirut chant the name of radical Iraqi cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, whose militia is blamed for thousands of Sunni deaths. In Sunni Arab countries like Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Egypt, sympathy for Sunnis in Iraq is spiked with the fear, notably in official circles, of a Shi'ite tide rising across the Middle East, instigated and underwritten...