Word: mount
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Nonetheless, if Benazir Bhutto and the P.P.P. are able to mount large and fervent demonstrations against Zia, the Pakistani establishment is going to feel the pressure. In the nearly five years Bhutto remained in the country following her father's execution, Zia responded to her challenges by simply throwing her in jail or placing her under house arrest. This time the President is clearly trying to avoid resorting to such authoritarian measures. "I will rule this country from my grave," predicted the charismatic Zulfikar Ali Bhutto before going to the gallows. Last week, at least, his daughter seemed determined...
...Economics, declared that "these are steps in the right direction, but the Japanese have a substantial way to go." Nakasone acknowledged that changes in Japanese spending habits would not come easily. Said he: "This question of restructuring is as difficult as a junior high school student trying to scale Mount Everest. But we think that we can do it, and it will be done." The question that remained: When...
Arab anger has been directed at the British government because it allowed the United States to mount the air attack on Libya from a U.S. air base in Britain...
Meanwhile, on an island southwest of Anchorage, the 4,025-ft. Mount ( Augustine volcano erupted for the second time, after being dormant since 1976. University of Alaska Geophysicist David Stone explained that the Mount Augustine eruptions, which shot ash eight miles into the sky, are loosely related to the earthquakes in that both are caused by the same "gross global mechanism": the glacial movement of the Pacific tectonic plate, which is inching north below California and diving under southern Alaska...
...interim, the batswomen will have time to mount an extermination campaign against some of the bugs that scuttled into light yesterday--namely sloppy baserunning and hesitant fielding...