Word: roiled
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...detention is sure to roil already turbulent relations with the U.S., but could actually work to China's advantage: Beijing might be able to use the academics as bargaining chips in its dealings with Washington. The Bush administration will likely decide this month whether to sell an advanced early-warning radar system to Taiwan. China also needs U.S. support for its final push to join the World Trade Organization, and the International Olympic Committee will vote in July on Beijing's bid to host the 2008 Summer Games. China has a history of timing the release of prominent prisoners...
...These economic tensions, added to the age-old stereotypes of the Madurese as clannish, threatening and rude, made it easy to roil the Dayaks. Combine that with the Dayak claim that all Madurese men carry knives which they are all too willing to use, and the Madurese become in Dayak eyes a perfect scapegoat for their woes. It is easier, after all, to blame the Madurese next door for Dayak problems than the central government in Jakarta...
...Montana. They were expressed by hosts, guests and callers on some of New York City's top radio stations. In America's most liberal city - where most Democratic congressmen, solidly to the left of the President, were elected with 80 to 90 percent of the vote - the airwaves roil with right-wing rant from WOR's Bob Grant, WABC's Sean Hannity and Steve Malzberg. And in this weird election week, when pundits were as befuddled as that guy on the next barstool, the talk on Right Radio had the fervid certitude of true believers. George W. Bush...
...about the actual decision. This is election time, when the stringently apolitical Fed just doesn't want to get involved unless it absolutely has to, and after last week's twin interventions on behalf of both the euro and oil prices, this was not the time Greenspan wanted to roil the markets in any way. But there are clouds on the horizon, and when Greenspan mentioned one of them - rising oil prices that could exert inflationary pressures - investors had a little sell-off, stopped, and then sold again until the modest morning rally had melted away. (Some moony-eyed investors...
Huffington and her colleagues are convinced they have hit on a formula that will roil the muddy middle of American politics, from Bushies on the one side to Gorites on the other. Their plan is media-savvy and politically astute. Concurrent with the party conventions, an assortment of activists, professional pols and show-biz celebrities with populist pretensions (from stand-ups like Bill Maher to superstars like Warren Beatty) will gather for four days of speechifying, seminar giving and satirical merrymaking, all on the indisputable assumption that the national press corps (and the public) will be so starved for spectacle...