Word: dreading
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...director of the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research in Ramallah, "one would have to be truly naive to believe that the current U.S. Administration will invest serious efforts in promoting good governance in the region." Among Arabs, the vision of a postwar Middle East is filled with dread. Many are convinced that a war would breed regional instability and spark a fresh burst of anti-American rage. Terrorist ranks would find fresh recruits to spread violence across the region. Fundamentalist forces could provoke crackdowns that stifle any political opening. Or if regimes allowed a tenuous democracy, well-organized...
...Armitage said last September. "They have a blood debt to us,... and we're not going to forget it." Added an old counter-terrorism hand: "They're very good and very deadly. For whatever reason, they've stopped killing Americans." But if they decide to start again, U.S. officials dread their professionalism, training and discipline - and their penchant for particularly deadly suicide attacks. "They're military trained. They keep their military skills up," said Chris Swecker, the special agent in charge of the FBI's Charlotte office and a key player in the Hammoud case...
...What makes it so difficult to cut off outmoded state ventures in favor of private firms is the government's dread of a grassroots social uprising. The number of jobs created in China barely keeps up with the armies of workers laid off by failing enterprises?and angry, laid-off workers are the biggest threat to the country's stability. Sichuan has seen its fair share of trouble: last June, traffic in Chengdu came to a halt on two occasions when workers held a protest about unpaid salaries; in September, 800 oil refinery workers in Chongqing demonstrated over paltry severance...
...heartbreaking loss of Space Shuttle Columbia over the skies of Texas this Saturday was a graphic illustration of what happens when our dreams dissolve into frightening nightmares. But we must not let this unfortunate disaster make us afraid of dreaming ever again. Despite this setback, we cannot allow dread of future nightmares to override our imaginations, tighten our purse strings, pack up NASA and keep our feet on the ground. Over the years, NASA has proved itself a successful aeronautical program that has aided scientists and theorists in learning vast amounts about what was once a dark mystery...
...Saddam may no longer be as powerful as he once was, but his people still dread the ubiquitous network of informers that help him rule by fear. On the surface, everyone in Baghdad loves their leader as they cross the Saddam bridge to the Saddam hospital or pass the Saddam airport on their way to the Saddam shopping complex or take a look at the half-built Saddam Mosque. Less so in the south, where hardly any shops bother to hang the president's portrait. But people are still cautious. Even in Karbala, the heart of the majority Shia community...