Word: sparking
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...also proving to be more tenacious than the medical community had hoped. In Hong Kong, doctors reported that, for unclear reasons, 12 recovered SARS patients had relapsed weeks after they had been discharged?spurring fears that people may be infectious even after they've left isolation, which could spark new outbreaks in areas where SARS has been brought under control. That possibility becomes more ominous if, as some doctors suggest, there are some people who come down with SARS without showing symptoms?meaning they could unknowingly spread the disease far and wide even under the strictest quarantine regimes...
...trying to negotiate with Hamas and Islamic Jihad in the hope of persuading them that ending terror attacks is in the wider Palestinian national interest. Having a considerably weaker political base than Arafat, Abbas is likely to be acutely aware that the path of confrontation with those groups could spark a Palestinian civil war from which the Palestinian Authority emerges even weaker. Instead, he seeks to maintain Palestinian unity on the basis of a common understanding to pursue the "roadmap" - an approach that has Israeli security chiefs warning that Abbas has no intention of forcefully dismantling "the infrastructure of terror...
...world's fourth - largest oil and gas producer - one that will pump about 2.2 million barrels of oil a day. It's not the first time this merger has been touted; the companies came close to a similar move about five years ago. The deal - which will likely spark more consolidation in Russia's energy industry and could be completed by the end of the year - must still...
...Seoul in the first half-hour of any confrontation. The human cost of going to war may too prohibitive in this instance. Instead, the hawks want to isolate North Korea and force its collapse through sanctions. So moribund and dependent is the North Korean economy that sanctions would indeed spark social collapse, which is why Pyongyang has warned it will treat any embargo as a declaration of war. That may be just fine with Washington hawks, but there's no support in the region for sanctions, which makes them a non-starter: The U.S. has hardly any economic leverage over...
Although Hale probably wasn’t in danger of losing his job—his defensive contributions would be hard to replace—the Crimson lineup needed a spark this weekend...