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1. A defiant Iran resumes full operations at its uranium conversion plant, its latest brinkmanship with the West over its nuclear ambitions.
2. In Iraq five more American service members are killed in a latest violence there while gunmen in Baghdad kidnap a senior Iraqi official.
3. President Bush signs a huge highway bill totally nearly 300 billion dollars including cash for thousands of lawmaker pet projects.
4. Ahead of next week's Gaza pullout, Israeli troops hold a final drill to prepare for some of the withdrawal's worst possible scenarios.
5. And a daring rescue saves a trapped climber who tried to scale Pakistan's so-called killer mountain in the western Himalayas.
WORDS IN THE NEWS
1. brinkmanship
brinkmanship
Brinkmanship is a method of behaviour, especially in politics, in which you deliberately get into dangerous situations which could result in disaster but which could also bring success. (JOURNALISM)
A game of political brinkmanship has begun at Westminster with the political careers of some cabinet ministers on the line.
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2. scenario
1 scenario scenarios
If you talk about a likely or possible scenario, you are talking about the way in which a situation may develop.
...the nightmare scenario of a divided and irrelevant Royal Family...
In the worst-case scenario, you could become a homeless person.
Try to imagine all the possible scenarios and what action you would take.
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3. scale
9 scale scales scaling scaled
If you scale something such as a mountain or a wall, you climb up it or over it. (WRITTEN)
...Rebecca Stephens, the first British woman to scale Everest...
The men scaled a wall and climbed down scaffolding on the other side.
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= climb
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