Word: ramps
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...practice of injecting clouds, usually with silver iodide "seeds," salt or dry ice, to make the clouds' water or ice particles bigger and yield more rain. The technique has been used in different parts of the world for more than 60 years - with varying success. But the slow ramp up of weather technology - and an enduring human obsession to play with the sky - has kept the practice afloat during times of hard skepticism and dwindling funds...
...Oxfam report says more money should go to emergency relief efforts in Iraq, where much of the international aid is earmarked for rebuilding and development. Khateeb agrees. But she suspects many would-be aid givers, chiefly the United States and its allies, will be slow to ramp up humanitarian intervention, because doing so would be a sign that Iraq has become a failed state...
...work with the Quds Force, an elite Iranian paramilitary organization known around the Middle East for its terrorist activities. The Iranian regime has long been a patron of Hizballah and its activities in Lebanon. In Tehran, Daqduq allegedly received orders from Quds Force leaders to settle in Iraq and ramp up training of Shi'ite militia fighters in order to create special "cells" of skilled guerrillas. "What is I think clear is Iran's interest in things like the Lebanon model as a method of preserving strategic influence in areas that are of importance to them," says Brig. Gen. Vincent...
...vegetables, a diet the National Cancer Institute recommends for everyone. The other group of women received intensive nutritional counseling - including cooking classes - to help them decrease their fat intake to 15% a day and increase their regular fiber intake to 30 grams a day. These women were instructed to ramp up their fruit and vegetable intake to about 12 servings...
...Czechs and their 48-star flags have become Clinton staples. She trotted them out in a speech about government reform in New Hampshire on April 13 (albeit with a different "down ramp": not about restoring America's role in the world, but about not "giv[ing] up on America's ideals") and has mentioned them at least five times since then. The anecdote also made a brief appearance in Clinton's autobiography, Living History...