Word: pose
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Precisely how large a threat the continuing demonstrations pose to Deng's government remained exasperatingly unclear. The senior vice chairman of the State Education Commission, He Dongchang, estimated the number of student protesters who have joined the current campaign at 40,000, or only about 2% of China's 2 million college students. Indeed there is little evidence that the student demonstrations have found much sympathy with Chinese workers, as some officials had feared. Last week the Workers' Daily scathingly compared today's student protests to the rampages of the Red Guards during the Cultural Revolution...
Others view the restrictions with greaternonchalance. Nikki Abrashamian, who comes from aBaha'i family in Iran where the prevailing Muslimculture also exercises strict regulatory laws,says the restrictions pose no problems...
...string of three straight road matches against St. Lawrence, Clarkson and Yale in January pose a significant threat to a perfect ECAC record. The last Harvard team to romp unbeaten through the conference was the 1974-'75 squad, which finished the season fourth in the NCAAs...
...instance, to anyone with a flair for chemistry, understanding the meanings of most terms found on the outside of commercially-packaged food or health-care products pose little problem. Partially hydrogenated soybean oil is simply oil extracted from soybeans, which contains several double-bonded carbon atoms per molecule, that has been reacted with hydrogen and a catalyst. This process breaks some of the double bonds, enabling a few more of the carbon atoms to accept electrons from the hydrogen. Partial or complete hydrogenation is performed to make a substance remain solid at higher temperatures...
Five members of the Harvard basketball team slumped to the Roberts Center court, each falling in a different pose yet all thinking the same thought: "We should have had that...