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The longer he holds out at home and escalates the genocide in Kosovo, the more the American media pronounce the bombing a failure.
As the crisis escalates, the critics pile on further.
Thanks to first-rate sound equipment, though, we hear everything they hear--especially a snapping of branches in the dark outside their tent that escalates into an omnidirectional clatter.
One solution is to make the axons of the neurons bigger but this increases brain size again and the problem escalates.
As the end of each fiscal year looms with no agreement between Congress and the president, conflict escalates, and the president threatens vetoes.