Word: ratcheted
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...many questions remain unresolved, including whether Khan sold blueprints for building a nuclear warhead to Iran, as he did with Libya. If true, such a finding would allow the U.S. to ratchet up its charges that Tehran's nuclear research has a military purpose. What's more, sources close to Khan Research Laboratories in Islamabad tell TIME that even though its head has been removed, Khan's illicit network of suppliers and middlemen is still out there. "Nothing has changed," one of Khan's former aides says. "The hardware is still available, and the network hasn't stopped." A recent...
Together Bertie, Clea and the grandiose, poetry-spouting, heavily medicated Thad ratchet from party to party, from mansion to beach house to resort, propping one another up. They're identically damaged souls, orbiting one another faster and faster, out of control, lost in space. There's plenty of sharp, funny show-biz business here. The celebrity cameos come thick and fast (Sharon Stone! Rob Reiner!), and Thad's guest spot on Starwatch is hilariously embarrassing--he has to wear alien makeup and say things like "I believe ... we are being appropriated by the Vorbalidian System." But Wagner boldly goes beyond...
Matt Stehle knew he had to ratchet up his level of play this season for Harvard to have any hope of competing in the Ivy League...
...professors warned that deficits were “politically addictive” but economically disastrous. They said that federal debt could ratchet up interest rates and set off a new round of inflation...
...fact, SMFG made the offer to UFJ management and not directly to shareholders, meaning the bid is not yet truly hostile. But it does ratchet up the pressure on MTFG and UFJ, which has already faced criticism for hastily dismissing previous SMFG overtures, to fully disclose the terms of their offer. Although UFJ has said it is "prudently scrutinizing" SMFG's latest bid, analysts do not expect the MTFG deal to be aborted. "It's hard to imagine that UFJ will switch partners at this point," says Nozomu Kunishige, an analyst at BNP Paribas. Still, Nishikawa has another option: mount...