Word: dormantly
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...anger erupted in March when Milson fired three mayors, charging them with refusing to cooperate with his administration. Two weeks ago, he dismissed a fourth mayor. The first round of firings led to strikes and demonstrations in the West Bank and even in Gaza, which had previously been relatively dormant. As the reaction began to die down, a shooting rampage by an Israeli soldier at the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem stirred up Palestinian resentment against Israeli rule all over again. The soldier, American-born Alan Goodman, has been charged with the murder of an Arab guard...
...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...
Harvard bats remained dormant following a two-run second, a credit to Army's Sinc, who got into a groove in the later innings. Not that the Crimson didn't have its chances. Left fielder Chris Schindler alone stranded five baserunners in the third and fifth innings and Harvard also failed to capitalize on Rivera's double to open the sixth...
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...