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The staged confrontations ostensibly were used to test inmates' ability to avoid fights and thus their readiness to enter the general prison population, but the report says they often escalated into predictably bloody violence.
Newt Gingrich escalated the Republican assault on President Clinton's ethics.
The optimistic spin: Once both sides realized they had escalated manageable material disputes (e.g.
This is the latest in a series of incidents--a North Korean submarine crew infiltrating the South, North Korea's top ideologist seeking asylum in South Korea's Beijing embassy--that have escalated tensions between the two countries.
The Washington Post leads with a report that cocaine and marijuana seizures in the southwestern U.S. and along Mexico's Pacific coast have escalated dramatically in the past two years.