Word: sparking
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...Saddam is still thought to lack the essential ingredient: fissile material to spark nuclear combustion. Before the Gulf War, Saddam paid German scientists to help assemble hundreds of gas centrifuges to cook bomb-grade enriched uranium from tons of raw ore. The Germans are gone now, and so are nearly all those centrifuges, although both the Atomic Energy Agency and U.S. intelligence say Iraq probably managed to squirrel away a dozen. But even if the Iraqis could put those centrifuges back together without foreign help and operate them around the clock, in five years they still could not distill enough...
...danger is that Ishihara?who hopes to succeed Koizumi as Prime Minister?might spark a wider loss of confidence in Japan's banks, scaring regular Japanese depositors into withdrawing their money in droves. That could have major repercussions for global stock and currency markets. "It is wrong to underestimate the severity of the Japanese financial crisis," warns Goldman's Courtis...
...delegate staggered into the theater just after lunch. "What's this one about?" he asked, as officials rearranged the stage between presentations. The Ford Foundation was about to launch a book describing what it calls "sustainable solutions," community projects that spark economic development and help protect the environment. "What time does it start?" the delegate continued. The World Summit on Sustainable Development was just four days old, but the man was already in a daze, giddy from all the meetings, speeches, exhibitions and protests. "I'm not even sure where I am," he confessed. "There are so many people talking...
...Hindus who helped Muslims, like headman Rana, are receiving death threats. The VHP has circulated pamphlets urging Hindus to boycott Muslim businesses, refuse Muslims jobs and not work in their offices. Police reports on the riots adamantly emphasize that Muslims began them: the spark for the violence was a still unexplained firebombing of a train filled with Hindu pilgrims, in which 59 died. According to independent human-rights groups like the People's Union for Democratic Rights, most Hindus arrested for rioting were released on bail within days. In the first hearing in July, a judge in Lunawada dismissed...
...That won't help the Bush administration shore up support for its main concern, going after Saddam Hussein. Images televised around the Arab world of Palestinian children killed by an Israeli missile are likely to spark new rage on the streets of Arab world that will be directed against both Israel and the U.S., at a time when Bush is trying to get all Arab allies on board for an invasion of Iraq. When Vice President Cheney courted Arab support last April, he found U.S. allies in the region uniformly warning that they could not be seen backing Washington...