Word: tensing
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Over the next several years, the wildcat wells were steadily taken over by the government. Complaints about inadequate compensation grew until 2003, when the dispute prompted tens of thousands of people to demonstrate in front of town halls throughout Shaanxi. At first, officials negotiated with peasant representatives. When talks stalled...
“There’s been a huge growth in terms of feeds offered. It’s now in the tens of millions, and it’s expected to be hundreds of millions by the end of the year,” Palfrey added.
Of course, London officials had been making the same entreaties--for decades. And the campaign had gained new urgency with the Madrid bombings. Last week we were reminded that the populist strategy has its limitations. And so, the day after the bombings, London introduced controversial body-scan machines at the...
It was a small site for so large a role in history--just 3 miles wide and 1 1/2 miles long. But at Waterloo, where at least 140,000 men would clash, the ferocious ambitions of Napoleon were brought to ground at last. Roberts, a British historian, focuses closely and...
Unlike other issues such as gay marriage, abortion, or gun control, modern-day slavery does not have two sides to the debate—most people who care to listen would agree that slavery is wrong and should be discontinued. Yet frustratingly few people support our cause. Almost nobody in...