Word: clamor
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...talk-shop and the decisions that count will be made in Washington. If the other three had any say whatsoever, the "road map" would have been published a year ago. And the Quartet was only invented as a fig leaf to cover the Bush administration from the urgent clamor among Arab and European allies for Washington to do something about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict...
...drape a multilateralist cloak over what many have charged is a U.S.-driven obsession with ousting Saddam. A U.N. stamp of approval would also make it easier for the U.S. to ask for the U.N.'s help in rebuilding Iraq after the war. And the various issues that will clamor for the world's attention after Iraq--from North Korea to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict--could grow into far more dangerous crises if the U.S. and its allies can't figure out a way to put behind them the differences that emerged over Iraq...
...Frasier_ fans make websites. "Transfans" inhabit a shadowy world of newsgroups, webpages, chat rooms, internet relays, and (illegal) episode downloads. They hold conventions and publish newsletters, clamor for exclusive toys and get them. Like veteran antiquers, they boast of their latest finds and newest acquisitions to any who will listen. A used Fortress Maximus fetches $500, a gold-plated Optimus Prime, $3000. Three months ago, a seller on Ebay offered an almost complete mint collection of the original run. The asking price? A whopping $30,000. Joe Millionaire could live off that for a year. The Transformers toys, Hasbro...
...Across town, while Dan-ni-er sleeps the pregame afternoon away, the indoor and outdoor courts of the Lu Wan District Children's Athletic School echo with the clamor of wannabe Yao Mings. Teenage boys leap and shout and launch fadeaway threes, and a dozen girls who can't be older than seven dribble two balls at a time?perhaps the Olympians of 2020 and beyond. OUR DREAM IS TO BECOME A SHANGHAI SHARK, reads a banner strung on the fence, but it is out of date; the success of the Young Giant has trumped domestic glory. Now, says...
...thirds of the axis of evil, then, America is proactive. But in the case of Iran, U.S. policy is a mystery. In a Washington speech on Dec. 4, Richard Haass, director of policy planning in the State Department, noted "a widespread popular clamor for reform" in Iran, "which will hopefully result in greater democracy and greater openness." But the Administration has never spelled out the extent to which it supports the reformers in Iran, much less said how it might help them. It should do so now. --With reporting by Massimo Calabresi/Washington, Matthew Forney/Beijing, J.F.O. McAllister/London, Donald Macintyre/Seoul and Azadeh...