Word: stirs
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...Green political party, have been detained or jailed for speaking out. But Wen, a Dalian native who was inspired to take up the cause as a teenager after watching antiwhaling actions by Greenpeace on TV, argues that most local environmental groups are too timid to stir much public interest. "To get publicity in the Chinese media, you need the sort of provocative actions that Greenpeace used to do," he says. "Most groups don't want to do anything that would threaten their existence...
...canvassing the opinions of ordinary citizens, whom she calls the "legitimate experts" on France's problems. In person, she listens with the prim attentiveness of a Catholic schoolgirl. Yet she has no false modesty over paparazzi adulation, shrugging at photos of her in a bikini that caused a stir this summer. As she says in an interview aboard a train between Poitiers and Paris, her two main political bases, "Why should one have to be sad, ugly and boring to go into politics these days...
...stir inspired Comedy Central’s Daily Show to run a five-minute segment lampooning the concept...
...approval rating at just 25%. And while disapproval of Congress as a whole isn't rare, polls are finding that more and more voters are dissatisfied with their own lawmakers--a more telling phenomenon. The Democrats hope that come Election Day, this perfect storm of discontent will stir a giant wave to sweep the G.O.P. out of the majority. In a recent presentation to top Democrats, pollster Cornell Belcher said the party has its best chance since the Reagan era to win slices of the electorate that have come to be identified with the G.O.P. base, including churchgoers, young white...
Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez caused a stir this week during his visit to New York City, denouncing President Bush as "the devil" in a speech at the U.N. General Assembly and, during a visit to Harlem the following day, calling him an "alcoholic." In an exclusive interview with TIME's Tim Padgett, Chavez defended his controversial rhetoric as a necessary part of his left-wing revolution's effort to counter what he calls Bush's "global imperalism...