Word: dormant
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...necessarily mean negating them. Hamas may calculate that as long as it refrains from terror attacks and delivers on promises of good governance, it may be able to achieve some sort of tacit coexistence with Israel while postponing the completion of a peace process that has been essentially dormant for the past five years. It's a tricky challenge, but both in their electoral eclipse of Fatah and in their outflanking of Secretary of State Rice this week, the leaders of Hamas have proven themselves to be nothing if not politically astute...
...jolt Iraq's precarious ethnic balance by injecting sizable revenues and foreign investment into an area about twice the size of New Jersey. Much of the work is still exploratory, but Western engineers and Kurdistan's Regional Government believe that huge riches could lie underneath. Exploration had been dormant for decades--the region first languished under Saddam's oppressive rule and then was isolated from Baghdad for 12 years after the 1991 Gulf War. "There's a race on to get fields into production," says a Western consultant in Kurdistan, too fearful for his safety to be named. "People...
...long wanted to direct a noir-style film, possibly based on Will Eisner's comic The Spirit. Meanwhile, creative kingpin John Lasseter, who has a deep affinity for traditional 2-D cel animation, is expected to revive that form in some way. He may even jump-start the long-dormant world-music spin-off of Fantasia, titled Musicana...
...Such an effort shaped DeBergalis’s campaign two years ago—and probably accounted for his unforeseen success. In targeting the student constituency, DeBergalis reawakened a dormant voter bloc that had been ignored altogether in previous elections...
After Villanova had strung together three-straight scores to rally for a 28-24 lead with 2:29 to play, McDermott was charged with the task of jump starting a dormant offense that stood 87 yards from a game-tying score...