Word: sprout
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Unless the underlying causes of terrorism are addressed and resolved, these militants will continue to sprout up like poisonous mushrooms on a dung heap, releasing their deadly spores to travel around the world. The U.S. will be a lot safer when it forgoes the rule of "might makes right" in its international affairs and supports the United Nations in its efforts to resolve international disputes fairly. The world is too interconnected to solve international problems while peering through the lens of nationalism. NEIL BEZAIRE Carlsbad, Calif...
HOURGLASS SPACE SPROUT Burger King The hourglass can be opened, and the candy-like plastic balls are easy to swallow...
...mysterious gathering. So why did the Fed put an end to its 50-points-a-meeting regime of the spring with a 25-basis-point cut - and release a statement that gave no indication why? Because, the minutes say, the members feared sowing too many inflationary seeds that could sprout next spring, and because they figured they?d done about all they could do for a slowdown that, after all, wasn?t going to last forever...
...Trust the market, Mr. Bush. The industries will grow. Windmills, especially, will sprout like weeds - tell Tom Daschle he can make South Dakota the Texas of wind - and solar will speed its evolution. Heck, we could use some new industries around here. Manufacturing could find its revival in energy-efficient appliances. Detroit could become a world leader in clean cars. And the dot-coms - as long they're either boosting productivity or entertaining us, they'll always be welcome...
...Amoco, the second-largest oil company in the U.S., is the world's largest manufacturer of solar panels. Wind farms are starting to sprout up - there's even one in Texas. Despite all of Bush and Cheney's much-criticized permissiveness when it comes to toxic power like coal and nukes, the long-term future they've laid out is cleaner than the one we've got: goosing, through reduced regulation, the natural-gas slice of the energy pie - it's now 15 percent - and letting the market for energy do the rest...