Word: sparking
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...China's surprising cooperation with the U.S. after Sept. 11. Beijing's muted response despite the Bush Administration's de facto upgrading of relations with Taiwan. An equally taciturn response to Japan dispatching naval forces to the Arabian Gulf, an expansion of Tokyo's reach that normally would spark loud complaints from Beijing about Japan's resurgent militarism. And in the U.N. Security Council, a China that says not no but nothing, signaling its quiet acquiescence even as France and Russia actively slow a U.S.-sponsored resolution on Iraq...
...just felt it was the right time to put him in,” Murphy said. “He gave us a spark. He just played a very smart, gutsy football game. … Neil did a good job of getting the ball to the few people that were open today...
Obviously, reactions to Ivy League athletics are somewhat different now. The arrival of freshman women’s hockey star Julie Chu at Bright Ice—already an Olympic medalist—won’t spark quite the same fervor. James Blake, Class of 2001, went largely unknown to many of his classmates until they happened to see him on ESPN...
...shop business, firms like Petco helped spark a boom in part by changing people's conception of smelly, helter-skelter pet stores, according to Marshall Meyers, executive vice president of the Pet Industry Joint Advisory Council. After folks found that they adored their new cockatiel, they started going to local shops for accessories unavailable at the chains, he says. The hostility between the independents and the chains has abated somewhat, replaced by a realization that David and Goliath can help each other. Want a hedgehog? You'll have to visit a local pet shop--the big chains haven...
...said he believed that the U.S. instituted the sanctions in order to spark the Iraqi people into an uprising against Hussein...