Word: swelling
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...Islam's calculations). One can only hope most people will ignore both events, but that hope is probably in vain. African Americans are so starved for inspiring leadership that many confuse Farrakhan with a hero. If he ever gets his hands on really big bucks, his throng will swell even more...
With results like this, and the likelihood that its trade surplus with the U.S. will swell to $40 billion this year, the Chinese have little incentive to change their stance. American policymakers face strong pressure from U.S. firms who fear that, unless the U.S. tolerates China's cheating on trade, they will be locked out of the world's fastest-growing market. Boeing will still benefit as long as it has orders for planes--even if they are built by Chinese workers. Whether Clinton and the Congress intend it or not, the practical effect of their trade policy toward China...
...been swell working with Eric, Matt, Mike, Becky, Brad, Ethan and so many others who have become a kind of extended family for me here at The Crimson...
Camaraderie is swell, but the play's the thing, and this year Humana had the goods. The big find was Naomi Wallace, a Kentucky native whose work has been produced by Britain's Royal Shakespeare Company but virtually not at all in the U.S. Her luxuriously poetic One Flea Spare is set during the London plague of 1665, when "at night the rats came out in twos and threes to drink the sweat from our faces." The stage is a canvas of convulsive emotions and pristine images of four tortured refugees from the pestilence. Only a 12-year-old girl...
Zyuganov enjoys a considerable lead in the polls over President Yeltsin and the two other leading candidates, Grigori Yavlinsky and Vladimir Zhirinovsky. In his effort to build a coalition that could swell the ranks of communist voters to the more than 50% he needs to avoid a run-off in the presidential vote, Zyuganov has cut back on Marxist verbiage, and is making an effort to include all groups that could help him defeat Yeltsin. Yet a large percentage of the nation's voters are profoundly suspicious, fearing that Zyuganov's talk of popular fronts and his promises to play...