Word: foment
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There may very well be such a conspiracy under way right now. But if the plot is to destabilize Central America and foment revolution there, then a simple analysis of U.S. policy locates the center of the cabal at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue...
...intransigence on Chun's part, however, is equally certain to foment national divisions and put the country at risk. As he looks toward Manila and Pyongyang, perhaps he can see that compromise rather than conflict holds out the hope of a happier outcome...
...address another point: This is, again, another cavil of Mr. Barron's that I feel can be best put into the straw man category: "no Jewish opinion is a good one" (according to Black intellectuals). Is Mr. Barron deliberately attempting to foment further dissension between Black and Jewish intellectuals? Increased tension between these two groups, especially in light of their past political alliance, is of grave concern to me and other academics. However, Mr. Barron's remarks seem calculated to aggravate differences, rather than reconcile them. How else am I to make sense of his nothing that "to loud applause...
Libya has made the leap to war. It terrorizes our citizens, supporting murderers and highjackers. It shoots at our planes when they fly in international air space. It has threatened to foment terrorism on our own soil. If the United States decides war is necessary, I would serve...
Gorbachev also shook the big stick. During a meeting with Pakistan's President Zia ul-Haq, in Moscow for the funeral, the General Secretary issued a thinly veiled warning that the U.S.S.R. might actively foment trouble inside Pakistan if its government continues to cooperate with the U.S. in supporting the insurgency in neighboring Afghanistan. Reporting on the meeting, the Soviet news agency TASS said that "aggressive actions" against Afghanistan "cannot but affect in the most negative way Soviet-Pakistani relations...