Word: motioning
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...WALLS Made of wood and steel, often with lightweight bullet- and fire-resistant Kevlar panels. In high-end rooms, motion detectors stop doors from shutting...
What is clear is the mess in Caracas is going to exacerbate the volatility in oil prices already set in motion by unrest in the Middle East. In the short term, it may even lead to a spike. Venezuela, the third largest exporter of oil to the U.S., emerged under Chavez as an oil hard-liner. The left-wing former paratrooper cozied up to radical petroleum producers like Iraq and Libya. He also criticized U.S. military action in Afghanistan and pushed for higher prices in the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. To further that strategy, Chavez had cut back Venezuelan...
...people still believe in an almighty deity who authored earth and heaven. They accept this strangely persistent fantasy largely because they assume, perhaps rightly, that most of Harvard’s Christians are really latter-day deists, conceiving of God as a distant, prehistoric clockmaker, setting the world in motion and then stepping back, safely out of the picture. They even accept the persistence of prayer with good grace, acknowledging its much-touted psychological benefits while assuming that no sane person would actually expect God to answer...
...This may not be the last scramble Abu Zubaydah sets in motion. He is said to be recovering nicely from multiple gunshot wounds, suffered as he tried to escape a strike force of Pakistani security officers, supported by FBI and CIA personnel who had tracked him to Faisalabad in central Pakistan...
...overthrow was set in motion on April 11 after Ch?vez-funded militiamen opened fire on 300,000 protesters backing a general strike, as they marched toward the presidential palace. Fifteen were killed. Generals in the armed forces began renouncing the President on television. The military high command took Ch?vez into custody and pressured him to resign. He refused, but the generals told the media he had stepped down. Washington chose to believe it. In a press conference the next day, White House spokesman Ari Fleischer acknowledged the transition government headed by Carmona, president of Venezuela?s largest business association...