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His Serb army and police seem to be doing their best to provoke war.
They mainly provoke orgies of media self-examination, which usually take the form of reporters who got scooped beating up those who broke the story.
It is now an article of faith among conservatives that Clinton wants another shutdown, that he will gin up a spending fight to provoke one.
The Cold War-era pact prevents the U.S. and Russia from installing antimissile defense systems, for fear that they would provoke a race to develop defense-eluding missiles.
Our analysis of Cdc5's role in release of Cdc14 from the RENT complex revealed that Cdc5 is required for disassembly of RENT in late anaphase, that Cdc5 can provoke premature disassembly of RENT in pre-anaphase cells, and that Cdc5 controls (at least in part) the phosphorylation state of Net1 during anaphase.