Word: hardening
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...doubt over whether international diplomatic efforts will bring the current confrontation under control any time soon. The Israelis felt compelled to respond swiftly and brutally to the killing of two of their soldiers who?d been under the protection of Arafat?s police, but the air strikes will only harden Palestinian resolve and inflame militants in Arafat?s territories to raise the ante themselves. Midday prayers in the Palestinian mosques Friday are unlikely to pass peacefully...
...want to introduce the Jacuzzi to newly affluent Chinese peasants. Instead of shipping the tubs from California, you simply ship the VEC unit, or cell. To make the tubs, two composite skins are draped over a foam model, and a thermochemical reaction causes them to harden into shape. (Because no metal bending is involved and the "thermoset" process uses chemistry, not immense heat, the molds cost a fraction of the conventional version.) The skins are then attached to a universal frame. The cell is closed and filled with pressurized water, which braces the skins together. Then composite materials are injected...
...Jewish state to Nazi Germany and denied the Holocaust. To further alienate Israelis, Syria has stepped up support for the terrorist group Hezbollah. Barak has promised his people a referendum should he reach an agreement with his Syrian interlocutors, but these statements, coupled with Syrian-backed violence in Lebanon, harden the Israeli electorate against a peace treaty with Syria and make it increasingly difficult for Barak to sell a future peace to his own people. Syria's reckless statements that offend the Israeli electorate's most basic sensibilities reduce Assad's chances of regaining the Golan Heights...
There seems to be one George W. Bush. The comparative simplicity of his character (validated by his good genes) will harden into a virtue of reliability that will be his greatest asset. But the public will wonder whether that one Bush is good enough - smart enough, mature enough, experienced enough. His body English is troubling (a certain jockstrap immaturity), and his spoken English can be even worse (incomplete sentences, spluttering non sequiturs...
...society that continues to dismantle basic guarantees of justice and decency even as the rich and the poor grow increasingly unrecognizable to each other. At Harvard, where words like "diversity," "equality" and "civility" are tossed around as effortlessly as major gift contributions, why do class distinctions so often harden along lines of color and language...