Word: riled
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...Beijing has supported Washington's war on terror and its efforts to contain North Korea. The U.S.'s deep involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan also means it is unwilling-and perhaps unable-to deal with any additional trouble over Taiwan. Hence, what Washington wants is for Chen to not rile China. "It is in nobody's interest to force the [Taiwan] question," says a U.S. source. "Taiwan has considerable pride [in its democracy], but they need to be aware that what they say and do has consequences for their security, and for ours." With Chen throttling back during his inauguration...
...APPROVED. TAIWAN REFERENDUM LAW, passed by the island's legislature, which for the first time will allow Taiwanwide referendums, a gesture of sovereignty that could rile Beijing, which maintains that Taiwan is part of China; in Taipei. President Chen Shui-bian had supported a broad measure that would have allowed a plebiscite on any constitutional changes, but the opposition Kuomintang managed to pass a law that prohibits a vote on constitutional issues and independence (unless Taiwan is attacked by the mainland...
...their songs: “Class dismissed/You aint rappin this/You aint got the aptitude/To pass the test.” They might as well have been talking about the stream of opening-act successors. The on-stage fog and coordinated lighting show weren’t enough to rile the crowd back up to Justice League-levels of excitement, even with the addition of a break-dancing and an all-girl hip-hop crew...
...protests—on this campus and others across the nation—to what is seemingly an inevitable war have been quiet compared to protests of the 1960s. Admittedly, this is not Vietnam, and a war on the other side of the world without a draft does not rile up students in quite the same...
Despite her reassurances this fall, school committee member Alan C. Price says he worries the process could still rile parents...