Word: swells
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...insisted. "And if you all can't see it, I don't know, maybe you're just blind to it." Perhaps, but the Elian Gonzalez debacle and the argument trumpeted in support of the China trade bill that trade is a weapon against repression may actually have helped to swell the ranks of the "blind" on both sides of the aisle on Capitol Hill...
...Posing as tourists, INS agents tested the irregulars' lines in the early-morning hours and were quickly challenged; they discovered that whenever the irregulars sensed trouble, they would alert others nearby; agents think they put through a call to a local AM radio station asking for more protesters to swell the lines outside the house...
...slick new version of the old one, ruled by Big Money and Big Government. On Saturday night alone, police arrested nearly 600 anti-globalists for "parading without a permit." Thanks in large part to the Internet, which has allowed them to cement their bonds, air their grievances and swell their ranks, the activists have got their acts together, the clout of old-fashioned labor welded to the cybersavvy of campus radicals. Their growing movement makes Hands Across America look like a game of ring-around-a-rosy...
Spurred by these success stories, would-be New York City auteur Devin Crowley, 32, joined an unprecedented swell of self-financed filmmakers at this year's Sundance Festival. Actually, he didn't get into Sundance. So he screened at No Dance, an all-digital video Sundance imitator held at a nearby mall. Crowley's movie, Show Me the Aliens!!!, was yet another mockumentary, this one about alien abductions...
...have diverted valuable resources from the city's public schools. Since Missouri instituted charter schools in 1999, roughly 4,300 students have enrolled in them, draining an estimated $18 million in state and local funding out of the Kansas City school system, and the district fears that sum could swell to $31 million if newly proposed charters are approved. The system reported $22 million in losses in '99, prompting the closings...