Word: stirs
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...know that it's really begun to resonate yet," Hoyer told me. "But I think it will. Republicans have gotten away with pledging not to spend the Social Security money, but they're already dipping into Medicare." Voters in Hoyer's district are beginning to stir, he believes. "I think people are going to get exercised about Social Security being at risk," he predicts. "And we're going to focus on it very closely...
...Even if the New York Post was right Wednesday in pegging Chung's sit-down with Condit as "the most-watched show of the summer," any public stir could be short-lived when viewers figure out what Condit is up to: Just trying to dust himself off politically while he's got the stage all to himself...
...year stint in Madagascar without knowing a thing about the Indian Ocean island. After toiling in a sweater factory for the full three years, she doesn't know much more. The 22-year-old lived with dozens of other Chinese laborers in a cramped dormitory, dining on rice and stir-fried veggies. She never visited any of capital Antananarivo's sights. Nor was she paid what she had been promised, although her wages were higher than for factory work at home. Now on the marathon Antananarivo-Nairobi-Abu Dhabi-Hong Kong trip back to Nanjing, we stop at an airport...
According to the Post, he also wrote a letter to a top Chinese scientist accusing the Post—which he called a newspaper “which has long been manipulated by anti-China forces”—of attempting to “stir up trouble in China...
...announced last week goes ahead--no sure thing, since the program will proceed in stages and can be shut down if it doesn't yield the desired results--will the river get better? Dredging even a small patch of riverbed can be a messy job, one that could merely stir up buried PCBs. Proponents argue that the remaining PCBs in the river have to go, and that when they do, the risk of cancer they carry will vanish with them. The EPA's research is on the side of the greens, but only when the dredging starts will the true...