Word: tides
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...American politicians are making "fact-finding trips" to Moscow, hoping to bring home an 8-by-10 glossy of their huddle with Boris Yeltsin. With as many as a dozen Congressmen showing up every week, Yeltsin and his staff have asked American Ambassador BOB STRAUSS to help slow the tide. The Russians say they're overwhelmed with too many urgent problems to spend so much time chewing the fat in what amounts to photo ops for the Yanks...
...nearing the end of a wildly successful career. The other is a rising young star. One is plagued by setbacks but still commands great national respect for his past accomplishments. The other is riding the tide of solid southern support while constantly pursued by rumors of womanizing...
Chomsky quoted from a memo written by anAmerican secretary of state in the 1940s, whichsays, "[The U.S.] must prevent the threat of therising tide of aspirations all over the worldamong common man aspiring to rise to widerhorizons...
...routed. Four months after his army invaded the South, the North Korean leader had fled his capital of Pyongyang as American-led U.N. forces pressed toward the border of the newborn People's Republic of China. Within a few weeks, though, Chinese "volunteers" poured into Korea and turned the tide of war, prolonging it for 2 1/2 years and keeping Kim's communist stronghold intact...
...half a century, doctors have been treating cystic fibrosis symptom by symptom, doing their best to stem the rising tide of mucus triggered by the disease. As this abnormally thick fluid builds up in the lungs, pancreas, liver and other organs, it not only serves as fertile ground for damaging infections but also blocks the passage of vital digestive enzymes to the intestine and stops up sperm in the testes. As a result, patients have difficulty breathing, digesting food and even reproducing. "This is a disease that simply wears you down," says Ramsey...