Word: tinder
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...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...
...have got to start thinking, is a mass of 160 million people deprived of their rights and of due process, witnessing the sheer helplessness of its most prominent citizen, the Chief Justice... does this contribute to the fight against terror or does such a mass not become that dry tinder ready to burst into flame? Do we have to wait for the storming of the Bastille? People will rise, and let me tell you, what disturbs me is that we've not had so far in all our demonstrations - and we've had massive demonstrations, tens of millions have come...
...worsened by a relatively wet winter in 2004-05, which let trees and scrub grow densely, followed by extremely dry weather since, which turned the vegetation to still more fuel. In fact, this past year has seen the worst drought in Los Angeles' recorded history. Adding to the tinder were those Santa Ana winds, which strike regularly in the autumn but rarely with the power of the past week. "They usually come in small, medium and large," says Bill Patzert, a climatologist with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. "These were Godzilla winds...