Word: erupted
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...Congress balks at cutting spending as deeply as the incoming Administration will propose, disagreements among Reagan's advisers that are already rumbling below the surface could erupt into a public battle. One group argues that taxes can be slashed no faster than spending; the implication is that, if Congress rejects some of Reagan's budget cuts, the tax reductions will have to be scaled back too. During his confirmation hearing last week, Secretary of the Treasury-designate Donald Regan placed a higher priority on reducing spending than on cutting taxes. He said that trimming the budget and controlling...
Neither side really wanted to see the squabble erupt into open battle. One reason is that the Arab world is deeply fragmented as a result of the war between Iraq and Iran. The open support of Jordan and the tacit backing of Saudi Arabia and the gulf states for Syria's archenemy, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, has left Syria feeling isolated and threatened. Some military analysts believe that one of Assad's motives in provoking the border confrontation was to blunt the possibility that Jordanian troops would be dispatched to Iraq to help in its stalemated struggle with...
...What is unprecendented is our approach to U.S.-Japan relations," Calder said. "We are studying the roots of conflict--not looking at the commodities where flashes erupt but rather at the policies which were there before the conflicts arose. We are attempting to get at the roots of the trade deficits and tensions," he added...
...Communist regime. Now the negotiations had reached a climax over the most crucial demand: a free-trade-union movement outside Communist Party control, a virtual contradiction in terms for a Marxist worker state. On the other side was the yawning void of disorder and a crackdown that, should violence erupt, might bring armed Soviet intervention...
...York City apartment. Brother Dave is still British-based and still the archetypal younger brother smarting under the domination of his sibling. "I had him down the other day, and he was understanding of my situation," Ray reports. "But it's the fact that it might all erupt at any moment that keeps us going." But prosperity does not bring complacence. "I'm a bit down on my songs at the moment," Davies grouses. "I don't like them at all." Kinks concerts are perfectly in tune with this restless, never satisfied spirit. The Kinks are notorious...