Word: tinder
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...rare diplomatic brawl between Israel and the U.S. But even as the Obama Administration and the Israeli government square off over demands that Israel refrain from announcing new construction projects in occupied East Jerusalem, the tussle as Israel extends its grip and Palestinians push back is a flashpoint. "The tinder is dry in Jerusalem," says one Western diplomat. "Israeli moves on the ground have been a source of tension, and Palestinian side is heating up the atmosphere as well. It's unwise to predict an explosion, by the slightest spark could cause...
...grapples with what's shaping up to be its worst drought in more than 100 years. At 0.68 meters high, the Red River is at its lowest level since records started being kept in 1902. With virtually no rainfall since September, timber fires are burning in the north and tinder-dry conditions threaten forests in the south. Soaring temperatures in the central part of Vietnam have unleashed a plague of rice-eating insects, damaging thousands of hectares of paddies. "It's the beginning of everything," Nguyen Lan Chau, vice director of the National Center for Hydro-Meteorological Forecasting, says gloomily...
...arrival of a new President tossed some tinder onto the cold coals of economic confidence; now Orszag and others inside the Administration are trying to feed the fire. And in spite of Obama's insistence that his team must walk and chew gum at the same time - make that "run and chew gum," his advisers recently amended - it is starting to register that nothing would stoke the flames better than a credible strategy for cleaning up the banks. As a senior Administration official puts it, "The money is less important than restoring a sense of confidence." (See pictures...
...make matters worse, bushfires fanned by the northwesterly winds raged through tinder dry inland regions. Near the Strzelecki Mountain range, about 62 miles (100km) southeast of Melbourne, arsonists were blamed for starting a fire that burned out more than 15,000 acres and cut a swathe through the tiny town of Boolarra. Boolarra resident Peter Stasinowsky, who stamped out embers with his feet and used a garden hose to save his home, described the blaze as "bloody huge."(Read "In Tongues of Flame...
...ancient city of 170,000 Palestinians is a tinder box of religious passions. It is the site of the Patriarchs' Cave, revered by Muslims, Jews and Christians as the tomb of Abraham and his wife, Sarah. And nearly 700 Jewish settlers are squatting near the tomb, protected by hundreds more Israeli soldiers whose security barriers and checkpoints have paralyzed the heart of this Palestinian city. The effect of the settler presence, with its attendant security measures, has been to radicalize the city's Palestinian population...