Word: tinder
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...inflation: recent rises in sensitive commodity prices; delays in deliveries of goods, which suggest tightening supplies that might enable some sellers to make price increases stick. Such pressures will abate, they think, if the Fed makes clear that it will raise interest rates enough to deprive inflation of the tinder of cheap loans. A few economists are worried that the Fed already has pumped too much money and credit into the economy. In their view, Greenspan should have raised interest rates earlier and more sharply than...
...they are called, merely annoy, ushering in what author Joan Didion has called "the season of suicide and divorce and prickly dread . . ." If the state is unlucky, a spark, man-made or natural, will strike the canyon vegetation, thick and green in the damp months but now dried to tinder. The spiky brown chaparral brush will ignite like old Christmas trees, and a canyon will become a fire corridor through which flames roar faster than a man can run, burning at temperatures high enough to melt metal, billowing to start yet more fires $ and driving walls of flame...
...Were the Davidians in fact intending to come out in a matter of days? Above all, did the cult members really set out to burn themselves and their children alive? Or did the tanks knock down their camp lanterns, burst open the propane, accidentally tossing a spark onto the tinder? A mass suicide? A mass homicide? A ghastly accident...
...real problems of Los Angeles. No matter what the outcome of the King trial is, L.A.'s days of anxiety will continue. The city will suffer its uneasy dreams of fire so long as nearly every aspect of local life -- schools, police, municipal government, race relations, the economy -- provides tinder. Having imagined many times in recent weeks how their city might go up in flames, Angelenos have yet to imagine how it might survive...
...original French title Feu la Cendre would seem to be untranslatable as well, but Elvis Costello came close when he lamented "you're less tender and more tinder" in "Only Flame in Town...