Word: letup
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...that the country is reaching a boiling point is heightened by its own estimates, which show that in 2003, some 3 million citizens engaged in 58,000 public protests, up 15% compared with the previous year. Figures for last year are not available, but there's been no apparent letup in unrest. In November, for example, as many as 100,000 Sichuan province residents physically blocked construction of a hydroelectric dam before police could regain control...
...threat of unilateral U.S. action that got the Security Council even considering the issue at all right now. Which is why even as negotiations continue on the text of resolutions both on Capitol Hill and at the Security Council in New York, there's unlikely to be any letup in U.S. and British military preparations for the worst-case outcome...
...There'll certainly be no letup in diplomatic pressure on Arafat to sustain his offensive against the Islamists - the very fact of his current actions appears to prove the thesis that the Palestinian leader only acts under extreme pressure. But the perception that the PA is taking political risks to crack down on radicals is likely to raise pressure on the Israelis in the coming weeks for a resumption of political dialogue. Peres has reportedly been meeting with PA officials to discuss a plan under which Israel would withdraw from all over Gaza and allow Arafat to declare a state...
...There has certainly been no letup thus far in attacks by Palestinian militants, nor is there likely to be until both sides have embraced the Mitchell proposals in their entirity. These require the Palestinian Authority to stop Palestinian militants from firing on Israelis, and to arrest known terrorists. But in the current climate, Arafat won't risk the heavy political price he'd have to pay on the Palestinian street for going after the radicals unless there was a tangible political incentive for doing so. And Sharon's position on the settlement question is likely to make more impact...
...Cohen insisted that the letup would leave the economy in "a fine place for us to be," and her colleagues agreed. Demand is slowing from a "surge rate" to a "sustainable rate," says Martin Feldstein, president of the National Bureau of Economic Research and once head of Ronald Reagan's Council of Economic Advisers...