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...actions like this were allowed to stand, there would be many territories the world over where people would fear the invader." Indeed, the globe is littered with hundreds of conflicting territorial claims. Many of these controversies, such as the Austrian claim to the Italian-held South Tyrol, lie happily dormant. Others are the source of sharp protests, active negotiations and open conflict. The outcome in the Falklands will thus be closely watched by those tempted to settle such questions by force...
Fifty miles south of Washington, in rural Calvert County, Maryland, Dorsey's Gray's Ford truck and tractor dealership is on the verge of bankruptcy, "Damn worst I've seen since I've been in business," he matters. And the once-booming Calvert construction business is dormant now: New building permits are down 44 percent from last year, idling most of the county's predominantly black construction workers. Officially, unemployment in Calvert is 18 percent, making the current recession Calvert's most distressing economic situation in recent memory...
...findings provided the strongest evidence to date for a growing view among planetary scientists. Unlike the moon, Mercury or even Mars, Venus does not seem to be a dormant world, essentially unchanged for billions of years. The presence of what seems to be fresh lava-like material indicates that Venus either is still active with volcanic eruptions and lava flows or has only recently become quiescent. Says Pepin: "Here we have a planet like earth whose heat engine is still going strong...
...Kidder Peabody & Co.: "It is Gulliver's Travels retold for the 1980s. The Lilliputians, like the Government, controlled a big giant. But one at a time, the strings began to fall away. Now we are confronted by this company with tremendous strength and resources that has been dormant for years and has at last broken free...
Carni says that often the seeds for an eating disorder may be lying dormant in a student who arrives at college and then learns a type of food abuse. "Some girls come to college totally unequipped to deal with sharing a bedroom with a roommate and her boyfriend, and for solace they turn to food," she says. "In large dorms it is extremely easy to learn how to vomit or use laxatives because you see people around you doing...