Word: eruption
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Engaging Iran won't guarantee improved U.S.-Iranian relations or a more stable gulf region. But not engaging means more of the same. The longer we wait to rethink our Iran policy, the greater the likelihood that the next crisis will erupt into a full-fledged confrontation...
...where a million people live in tin shacks and clapboard huts--without sewerage, hospitals or jobs--a five-minute drive from some of the city's most luxurious homes. Richard Dowden, director of the Royal African Society in London, describes Kenya's poor as the "explosive dispossessed," ready to erupt into violence...
After increasing pressure from both the international community and his own people, Pakistani President General Pervez Musharraf announced today in Islamabad that elections would be held before February 15, and that he would soon be doffing his controversial military uniform. If the country didn't exactly erupt into shouts of jubilation, there was certainly a collective sigh of relief, as the announcement presages an end to a draconian regime of martial law that has plagued the country since Saturday. The White House responded with praise - "We think it is a good thing that President Musharraf has clarified the election date...
Hundreds of people were trying to pack their way through the single front door, while a hapless police officer attempted to regulate. Stemming from the mass, a trail of people curved around the corner where more police officers looked to be quietly praying a riot didn’t erupt. Teams of local cable news camera vans were parked out front...
...have something directed this way, to me, at this moment, seemed almost supernatural somehow.”“It was addressed to ‘My dear Sir,’” Faust said in the speech, causing the audience to erupt into laughter and applause. “Conant wrote with a sense of imminent danger. He feared an impending World War III that would make, as he put it, ‘the destruction of our cities including Cambridge quite possible.’”And while Conant, according to Faust, expressed...