Word: enriching
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...onto foreign owned gas fields and planted themselves under signs reading "NATIONALIZED: PROPERTY OF THE BOLIVIAN PEOPLE." At the time, newly elected Bolivian President Evo Morales' May 1 announcement to nationalize his country's vast natural gas reserves by October 28 seemed like a bold gambit that could either enrich his impoverished nation - or easily backfire. He gave the foreign firms 180 days to agree to new contracts giving Bolivia 50% or more of the profits - up from the 18% agreed upon in 1997 - or else be forced to leave...
...Core,” and its coming was prophesized to herald a golden age in the education of collegiate pupils. Under its benevolent rule, simple undergraduates would be transformed from ignorant savages into enlightened cosmopolitans who no longer sought to gain the easy A, but rather to enrich their existence with knowledge of the ages. All that was needed was absolute submission?...
...nuclear weapons was still somewhere in North Korea, but no more had been separated. The entire plutonium-production program was frozen and under International Atomic Energy Agency inspection; and the other elements of the framework were on track. The problem was the secret North Korean effort to enrich uranium for a nuclear-weapons program. The Bush Administration's approach to the problem quickly took shape when it confronted Pyongyang with the knowledge of the secret program and the demand that the North give it up before any further negotiations could take place. When Pyongyang refused, the U.S. abandoned the Agreed...
...Iran continues to enrich uranium, the U.S. military has issued a "Prepare to Deploy" order. Most U.S. readers blamed escalating tensions on a trigger-happy Administration at home...
...Parsi: Although the EU representative, Javier Solana, reported that progress had been made in his talks with Iran's nuclear negotiator, Ali Larijani, the Iranians have thus far continued to reject the Western demand that Iran suspend uranium enrichment as a precondition for negotiations. Solana and Larijani had been looking for a formula that would have the Iranians halt enrichment activities for a clearly defined period to allow such talks to begin. But the Iranians are reluctant to accept any deal that removes their right to enrich uranium at some point in the future; even if they do so temporarily...