Word: heightening
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Postal employees are gearing up for theexpected rush of eager customers today. Giddingssaid she will take her five-pack of Elvis compactdiscs to work to heighten the atmosphere...
Compounding matters are economic troubles that are bound to heighten resentment and play into extremists' hands. The costs of reviving eastern Germany -- now running at more than $100 billion a year -- are not diminishing. And as Kohl finally acknowledged in a recent speech, Germany is entering the recession that has had much of the West and Japan in its grip. Most domestic political considerations argue against the Kohl government's using the opportunity of the police crackdown to confront German xenophobia. After Molln, though, every humane consideration demands...
Nunn said the threat of nuclear escalation islow, but increasing economic, political, andethnic tension in the regions heighten the risk ofan accident or unauthorized launch...
...song "Jezebel" deals with the pain and complexities of ending a marriage through a slow mournful beat followed by a quick, urgent one. The lyrics heighten the power of the song: "How I wish that we never had tried to be man and his wife/To weave our lives into a blindfold over both our eyes...
...song "Jezebel" deals with the pain and complexities of ending a marriage through a slow mournful beat followed by a quick, urgent one. The lyrics heighten the power of the song: "How I wish that we never had tried to be man and his wife/To weave our lives into a blindfold over both our eyes...