Related by context. All words. (Click for frequent words.) 43 Clock ticks 42 toughens stance 40 seeming intransigence 37 Anger mounts 36 banksâ 36 flexes muscle 36 FACTBOX Key 35 INSTANT VIEW Reaction 35 Showdown looms 35 Debate swirls 35 Clock ticking 35 averts shutdown 34 Smooth sailing 34 launched furious counterassault 34 Passage 34 Bilbray Y 34 uneasily awaited 34 Uncertainty prevails 34 CTA doomsday 34 Banking Supervision softened 34 Weather hampers 34 Flexing muscles 34 CHRONOLOGY 34 SCENARIOS Possible outcomes 33 airports Heathrow Stansted 33 Gov. Daniel Tarullo 33 Partisan bickering 33 CGames 33 Negotiators Agree 33 Tragedy overshadows 33 Blumenauer Y 33 provoke protectionist backlash 33 STOCKS Futures slip 33 Strong aftershock rattles 33 Dire warnings 33 Voicing concern 33 Protests mar 33 Jeffords defection gave 33 Doubts persist 33 intensifying impatience 32 Zhang Huiguang 32 CHRONOLOGY Key dates 32 Carol Browner underscores 32 PRO CON Is 32 unsnarling 32 Fear stalks 32 millennial bash 32 rang alarm bells 32 narrowly averting 32 Clashes mar 32 Biting cold 32 DeGette Y 32 Gebrselassie skipped 32 Communist Party plenum 32 FACTBOX Facts 32 Skepticism greets 32 partisan skirmishing 32 Gaping hole 31 Lingering worries 31 treads softly 31 casts shadow 31 Doubts linger 31 Nagging worries 31 Adamov extradition eventually 31 abortive Tibetan 31 midnight padlocking 31 NKorea nuke talks 31 poses graver 31 wonâ 31 uncertainty shrouding 31 staunchest backer 31 Averting 31 Urges Compromise 31 financial contagion crimping 31 fragile detente 31 plunged precipitously hurtling 31 INSURANCE MANDATE Like 31 FACTBOX Key facts 31 futuristic skyline 31 rift widens 31 Deal averts 30 Largely overlooked 30 overgrazing deforestation drought 30 railway motormen 30 creeping inexorably 30 climactic Christmas Eve 30 Renewed worries 30 Daunting task 30 Glacial melting 30 curbing 30 fever grips 30 careens toward 30 Litmus test 30 CHRONOLOGY Major 30 dispel doubts 30 Akshya Tritiya 30 Sarah Chasis director 30 intraparty bickering 30 cast shadow 30 winged spaceships 30 Blowouts onshore Fear 30 floods droughts desertification 30 lobbed artillery shells 30 flares anew 30 Yana Dlugy 30 History beckons 30 Noam Neusner spokesman 30 STOCKS Futures dip 30 Uncertainty lingers 30 unfairly punishes gays 30 trod cautiously 30 Grafton Notch 30 melting Himalayan glaciers 30 TREASURIES Bonds slip 30 direst predictions 30 unblock frozen 30 modest reorientation 30 cranes dot 30 Uncertainty surrounds 30 Senators Criticize 30 reacted guardedly 29 stokes fears 29 Squarely blaming 29 Mayor Guo Jinlong 29 reckoning 29 Seismologists warn 29 Portraying Nifong 29 jubilant Argentines 29 Jens Sondergaard 29 catastophic 29 Hostile takeover 29 incipient inflationary pressures 29 narrowly averted partial 29 Dynastic politics 29 reacted bullishly 29 Subprime woes 29 LTCM hedge fund 29 legislation tilted unmistakably 29 Skepticism abounds 29 #/#/#Spain 29 sounded alarm bells 29 Amnesty slams 29 openly gay nonincumbent 29 floods droughts heatwaves 29 Fireworks lit 29 Panel Weighs 29 Loonie tumbles 29 Rhetoric aside 29 curb 29 FACTBOX Reaction 29 Overruling objections 29 Passes Sweeping 29 momentary blip 29 Passes Controversial 29 Rain douses 29 averting 29 SCENARIOS Possible 29 #,#-#,# warheads 29 Contradictions abound 29 Nears Vote 29 Rain disrupts 29 floods heatwaves droughts 29 allay anxieties 29 Howrah Kurla Gyaneshwari Express 29 act preventively 29 halls nonchalantly cupping 29 relentlessly assailed 28 clerics sprinkled incense 28 clinched berths 28 Trichet reticence 28 bureaucratic logjams 28 Approves Gay Marriage 28 Uncertainty looms 28 German EconMin 28 KK Mital head 28 president Jacque Rogge 28 Downplaying 28 TREASURIES Prices rise 28 sweeping 28 watchers flocking 28 Denting 28 Hotly contested 28 unsnarl 28 Virulent swine flu 28 snowballing 28 clock ticked 28 Stocks tumble 28 Contempt citations 28 #/#-lap race 28 occuring Shum 28 droughts floods heatwaves 28 slogged 28 Vandals mar 28 Glaciers Melting 28 looms 28 pervasive weariness 28 coasted 28 headlong plunge 28 Curbing 28 clouds darken 28 conspiracy theories abound 28 WHouse 28 voiced dismay 28 inched closer 28 Controversy brews 28 imperiling 28 defused thorny 28 nonbinding blueprints 28 Invoking Depression 28 imperial grandeur 28 Pressure mounts 28 standardize interrogation techniques 28 Warily watching 28 Congress reshaped recessive 28 intimately entwined 28 dispel apprehensions 28 Appears Likely 28 Wedged between 28 unsettling authoritarian rulers 28 decriminalizes possession 28 momentous 28 Breathtaking 28 Massive windstorm howls 28 CNY4 trillion 28 lipstick maxim 28 Furor grows 28 Record rainfalls 28 Tighter lending standards 28 bodes ill 28 Passes Gay Marriage 28 landmark 28 Uphill battle 28 crystal staircases 28 Contador Leipheimer 28 Enacts Law 28 svelte southpaw 28 unless Widrlechner 28 clears hurdle 27 allay apprehensions 27 Perilously close 27 unclog frozen 27 conservatives deride 27 heatwaves droughts 27 gloom shrouding 27 train swirled pleasingly 27 allay concerns 27 Allaying fears 27 megabanks straddling 27 wrung concessions 27 ACLU Applauds 27 Allaying 27 gloomy pall 27 statutory paygo 27 Violence erupts 27 catastrophic 27 clouding prospects 27 Fengtai Field 27 unfolding 27 Makes Unannounced Visit 27 avert 27 THE INFLUENCE GAME Lobbyists 27 Droughts floods 27 utter irrelevance 27 trod lightly 27 atheistic communist 27 Leaders exuded confidence 27 lingered 27 raised hackles 27 Tense moments 27 sharpest bare knuckle 27 fiercely contested remake 27 clinching 27 Faces Crucial 27 marring 27 cast pall 27 Until Eyjafjallajokul stops 27 Critics assail 27 Savoring 27 Tough sledding 27 Dire predictions 27 Rain dampens 27 Protest mars 27 lobbied intensively 27 ending monthslong standoff 27 wreaked devastation 27 unclog credit 27 disorderly liquidation 27 Recessionary fears 27 Petr Sykora Alex Goligoski 27 enacting stricter 27 Ines Franck director 27 denuclearising pointing 27 Arabia Doctor Zhivago 27 reassure jittery 27 wildcard Bethanie Mattek 27 leapfrogged idle 27 overlending 27 Bounced checks 27 casting pall 27 deepening pessimism 27 Speculation mounts 27 unfolded 27 Kyl Cornyn 27 Bloomberg Linzie Janis 27 unveiled multitrillion dollar 27 victory 27 Trench warfare 27 Zigzagging 27 Righting 27 Hopes dimmed 27 Decho strategist 27 pounding monsoon rains 27 renminbi undervalued 27 angering environmentalists 27 undersecretary Labid Abbawi 27 METALS Copper dips 27 Conflicting signals 27 Adm. Eliezer Marum 27 Prolonged instability 27 SNL mocks 27 Van der Vorst savors 27 invoked cloture 27 KOLD News #Obama 27 Wildfires rage 27 congratulated Yanukovich 27 woes besetting 27 Lawmaker proposes 27 Laki volcano spewed 27 By VIKKI ORVICE 27 healing rifts 27 commemorations marking 27 TREASURIES Prices fall 27 Stopgap 27 STOCKS Futures rise 27 J 1LT # 27 pall 27 lava oozed 27 passed uneventfully 27 pyrotechnic punctuation 27 flatwater canoe kayak 27 Sol Duc Falls 27 Easing tensions 26 heatwaves droughts floods 26 Fingerpointing 26 By Jenna Towler 26 favoring indigenous Fijians 26 roiled 26 Wayward whales 26 Hundreds Feared Dead 26 Gloom deepens 26 spokesman Hidenobu Sobashima 26 piling 26 Considers Extending 26 Approves Controversial 26 leveraged buyout loomed 26 soothe jittery markets 26 sheltered pedophile priests 26 starkly evident 26 Snowstorm shuts 26 topsy turvy budgeting 26 Spontaneous celebrations 26 normalizing bilateral 26 Panel Approves 26 FED FOCUS Fed 26 my kimchee breath 26 soothe frayed nerves 26 renminbi revaluation 26 Incredible Hulk neckties 26 renminbi appreciates 26 spiraled downwards 26 triumph 26 Ferries Collide 26 tightly circumscribed 26 eminently preventable 26 Lalith Weerathunga secretary 26 tumultuous eras 26 reverberate 26 Lights flickered 26 Joe Manimbo 26 liquidity sloshing 26 politically dicey 26 Wage freezes 26 risked jeopardizing 26 Tavishi Srivastava 26 Suspense mounts 26 Heavy rains triggered 26 Anti incumbency 26 calming jittery 26 Tonga flattening 26 Rain postpones 26 burnishes 26 ring alarm bells 26 wholly avoidable 26 diffusing tensions 26 looming 26 Reformists denounced 26 unfairly scapegoated 26 COPENHAGEN Negotiators 26 traded choppily 26 Omnibus Spending Bill 26 congressional bargainers 26 Questions linger 26 Setbacks mounted 26 Yeltsin disbanded 26 Panel Oks 26 strugging banks 26 gold medalist Mizuki Noguchi 26 mere footnote 26 Debate rages 26 hurtling headlong 26 Painful reminders 26 Sweeping 26 springing surprises 26 Scuttling 26 Looming 26 Archaeologists Unearth 26 militancy wracked 26 shooing migrant 26 Passes Legislation 26 HILLIARD GALLERY 26 regulating tailpipe emissions 26 ease tensions 26 Panel Considers 26 Shifting sands 26 unstable unbalanced uncoordinated 26 loomed 26 razor wire cordons 26 Dispelling fears 26 Snarled traffic 26 Herculean task revamping 26 Departed triumphed 26 Battlelines drawn 26 troop withdrawl 26 Greeceâ 26 ongoing Telangana agitation 26 cruised 26 Web designer Qanta 26 Norbert weakens 26 destablize 26 Buses sputtered 26 Passes Landmark 26 Floods engulf 26 WASHINGTON Perilously close 26 Vermont legalizes 26 Fishermen Rescued 26 Seemingly undeterred 26 nail biting 26 Reintroduced 26 flaring anew 26 Omnibus Spending 25 DAVOS Switzerland AFX 25 require redeployments 25 romped 25 OKs Gay Marriage 25 reacted cooly 25 Cadel Evans Spaniards 25 glittering skyscrapers 25 counterpart Li Zhaoxing 25 Confusion persisted 25 negotiators 25 Nears Approval 25 casts pall 25 Clouds obscured 25 InterAcademy Council collection 25 steep hillside overlooking 25 PRESIDENT BARACK 25 export sapping appreciation 25 festering 25 cleared procedural hurdle 25 prevent speculative bubbles 25 Violence mars 25 Currency devaluation 25 breathless suspense 25 j reed 25 averted 25 KOLD News #New 25 Sehwag blitzkrieg 25 Opinions differ 25 % #F# 3v.jsn 25 Jalili dodged 25 gunmaker immunity bill 25 spiraling 25 jokingly dubbed Snowmageddon 25 reacted sourly 25 spooking 25 Matt Esteve 25 neighboring Southern Kordofan 25 Scotland outermost Hebrides 25 unnerved 25 ARE Sweden Anja 25 Antigovernment protests 25 Multiple explosions rocked 25 Alarm bells ringing 25 boomeranging 25 Breakwater Lighthouse 25 Hectic parleys 25 Corruption scandals 25 rudely interfered 25 worries 25 constitutional amendment SJR 25 clinched 25 counting 25 Lawmakers haggled 25 roiling 25 Casting pall 25 procedural hurdle hindering 25 unresolved 25 accelerator pedals floor mats 25 Resolving 25 avert shutdown 25 adjourning sine die 25 Havana Malecon coastal 25 Persistent joblessness 25 unwinable 25 similarly noncommittal 25 Heads Toward 25 Unanimously Approves 25 Bomb hoaxes 25 Closures peaked 25 keep Tomcats airworthy 25 Bofors ghost 25 edging closer 25 Gustav swirled 25 #/#/#Germany 25 Glitch snarls air 25 turmoil roiling 25 soverign debt 25 Igoeti crossroads town 25 south Gorely 25 floods heatwaves 25 clears procedural hurdle 25 Cramdown 25 sowed panic 25 Sanath Jaysuriya 25 Utopia Tom Stoppard 25 solidly anchoring 25 downright inhospitable 25 liberalizing transatlantic 25 ANTITRUST Amendment expected 25 Quantitative easing refers 25 indebted eurozone 25 voiced concern 25 clock ticking 25 Bunning filibuster 25 fretting 25 Astmax Emori 25 mend rifts 25 rippled 25 Geopolitical worries 25 £ #.#trillion [001] 25 CNOOC Unocal 25 thrown monkey wrench 25 forcing repeated adjournments 25 erecting statues 25 gripping 25 deepwater rig exploded 25 Wary 25 dashed 25 earlierthis 25 An unpunished blindside 25 Basel III accord 25 deploy missile interceptors 25 minimizing speculative bubbles 25 NEW DELHI Terming 25 spiraled 25 rout 25 completed Abrames 25 recesion 25 oars flashing 25 H.R. 25 roil 25 complicating 25 Stonecutters Bridge 25 Both 25 Quake triggers 25 attempted self immolations 25 walks tightrope 25 Investors reacted coolly 24 mulls 24 inflaming sectarian tensions 24 WASHINGTON Prospects dimmed 24 majestic vistas 24 Unemployment Compensation Extension 24 Overhanging 24 allays fears 24 twin specters 24 monochrome floral 24 Squeaky wheels 24 Herger N 24 periodic nosedives 24 stoke inflationary 24 steel vise 24 Watchdog probes 24 cataclysmic 24 Test centurions 24 Credit Cardholders Bill 24 wildcat walkouts 24 monumental traffic jams 24 vaguely worded document 24 shadowed 24 glided 24 sweeping marble staircases 24 safeguard 24 Voters Reject 24 yield curve inverting 24 Innocents Abroad 24 looms ominously 24 wildfire scarred hillsides 24 PIGI 'S 24 keenly watched 24 fanned 24 bechmark 24 casts doubt 24 Vigorously defending 24 Ratification 24 mystery shrouds 24 discordant noises 24 devolving policing powers 24 write finis 24 SKorea eases 24 Questions abound 24 resuscitate stagnant 24 Tetsuya Miura chief 24 romance Atonement dominated 24 NBC#Obama 24 cascading effect 24 Monrovia Sierra Madre 24 hairsbreadth 24 Commonwealth Thurtell 24 casting shadow 24 senior Kristen Bortolotti 24 Reaches Compromise 24 gravest crises 24 Shinichiro Matsushita 24 Protectionist sentiment 24 Husseiniyah blockade 24 Nurse practitioners argue 24 FHA Modernization Act 24 Studios Girlfriends Films 24 honoring Imam Moussa 24 Pressure mounted 24 intrastate foe 24 rattled 24 Candidates spar 24 clearing 24 inching closer 24 Ganesh idol immersion 24 temporarily shelved 24 contagion spreading 24 soothe ruffled feathers 24 Unanimously Passes 24 gripped 24 Great Depression clamping 24 torrential seasonal 24 nondefense nonentitlement spending 24 swept 24 allay fears 24 spokesman Aditya Insaan 24 brutally stamped 24 nBonds 24 Faces Uncertain 24 Jaswant Singh expulsion 24 Takafumi Yamawaki 24 Highly publicized 24 Roiled 24 stirs passions 24 pilgrims thronged 24 taming 24 sweeped 24 forebodes 24 Credit Cardholder 24 Status Passed 24 Thirteenth seeded 24 deploy missile shield 24 needlessly antagonize 24 Barofksy 24 Evidence mounts 24 Stocks barely budged 24 Randiv bowled 24 Treaty LOST 24 upend nascent 24 Credit Card Holders 24 Pooh poohing 24 renominate Greenspan 24 reacted coldly 24 homeward journey 24 Jason Varitek homered 24 unraveling 24 dwelled 24 tying Boog Powell 24 bureaucratic snarls 24 react robustly 24 Agios Stefanos township 24 Evil Samurai Warlord 24 Harvick nips 24 edging 24 Mbendayi 24 Glitz glamor 24 shouted Fascists 24 showdown 24 Nears Finish Line 24 erecting barbed wire 24 dimming prospects 24 droughts melting glaciers 24 trigerred 24 sticky wicket 24 Differing views 24 locate Nasar 24 NIT Capsules 24 unpropitious 24 Basanta Utsav 24 British thinktank Chatham 24 passage 24 shoveled sidewalks 24 vertiginous heights 24 picture postcard 24 Christmas tree tinseled 24 sprinters Costas Kenteris 24 voiced skepticism 24 stretching 24 averts 24 Approves Same Sex 24 Voters Approve 24 introduce homesick solidiers 24 worry 24 Faint brownish bloodstains 24 nuclearizing 24 enshrouds 24 apropos lyric 24 tail wagged vigorously 24 Yevgeny Gavrilenkov chief 24 unpayable debt 24 Hails Passage 24 untested ballistic missile 24 Archaeologists Find 24 diplomatically bludgeoned 24 Gustav landfall 24 imperil 24 hasnā 24 droughts ravage fields 24 MarketWatch Crude 24 Triple whammy 24 outduelled 24 Harper prorogued 24 prove RITEK 24 desolate wastelands above 24 Thrilling 24 averting catastrophe 24 partially nationalize 24 feeling masochistically nostalgic 24 motorcyclist Fabrizio Meoni 24 Military helicopters ferried 24 precipitious early 24 hedge fund blowups 24 ferocious counterattack 24 treading warily 24 pandemic flus 24 Sylvain Wiltord equalized 24 group Familias Argentinas 24 strenuously resisted 24 sweep 24 PLC NRK.LN 24 engulfing 24 accord 24 sweeps twinbill 24 booms busts 24 1st Sess 24 swollen rivers overflowing 24 NKorean rocket 24 EURO GOVT Bonds 24 Assigning blame 24 rung alarm bells 24 imperilling 24 Urges Passage 24 Trump flirtation 24 rein 24 kingmaker bartering 24 mending frayed 24 teeming marshes 24 blackens 24 Invigorated 24 Repeals 24 resolving 24 thereby averting 24 pockmark 24 czarist Faberge eggs 24 icebergs scour 24 progessing 24 #.#-#.# [029] 23 speedily ratifying 23 reigniting fears 23 merest stirring 23 Begins Debate 23 Schuylkill Berks 23 pause LeCure 23 reviving moribund credit 23 Swoosie Kurtz Heartbreak 23 conditionally vetoed 23 Bulldozers tore 23 Hester bulled 23 kickstart stalled 23 souring 23 dramatically reshapes 23 restoring devolution 23 Secrecy surrounds 23 spewed radioactive 23 extending 23 Wrangling 23 nonpayments 23 Worries 23 Expressing grief 23 loomed ominously 23 Skip Schumaker RBI groundout 23 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Steve Traschel #-# 23 ballooning 23 Toni Collette dethroned 23 darkening 23 hovered 23 tantalizingly close 23 Passes Minimum Wage 23 heightened tensions 23 sternly prodded 23 keeps pluming 23 Stray incidents 23 reggae tinged Billionaire 23 wayward parolees 23 Krishna Paksha 23 Jeff DeMaagd 23 administrator Mukhlesur Rahman 23 tip toed 23 congressional grillings 23 Brightening prospects 23 STIMULUS WATCH Teens 23 hogged headlines 23 Samoa flattening 23 pitcher Nathan Kilcrease 23 Basler Zeitung newspaper 23 easing tensions 23 blights 23 Boat Sinks 23 MyDeathSpace veers 23 contagion 23 Compromise 23 stoke protectionism 23 America COMPETES Reauthorization 23 tar balls wash ashore 23 curtail 23 Hurricane Rita roared 23 recapitalize banks 23 Mutually assured 23 steady upward trajectory 23 improbable 23 Squawking seagulls 23 Medvedev righteous indignation 23 Shattered glass covered 23 Rejects Proposed 23 sidestepped questions 23 withdrew citing irresolvable 23 Richichi blamed 23 Obstruct Terrorism 23 nightmare scenario 23 harbinger 23 Global Warming Threatens 23 witching hour 23 Floods droughts 23 reining 23 Supremo HD Deve 23 CHRONOLOGY Recent 23 deadliest peacetime maritime 23 Frederic Neumann 23 playing Freddy Kreuger 23 Fight Looms 23 earthen levees protecting 23 Jnaneswari train 23 Electrodes inserted 23 unease 23 Eurozone peripheral 23 downplaying 23 indebting 23 overcome procedural hurdle 23 Hamas raided Shijaiyeh 23 upstages 23 Imperiled 23 superheated containers 23 Ratifying 23 contend loosens soils 23 Internet Gambling Prohibition 23 Uncertainty 23 catastrophe 23 sends shockwaves 23 sodden muddy 23 deterioriating 23 UDF LDF 23 unnecessarily antagonize 23 Kerik inherits 23 tarnished 23 multimonth lows 23 Toru Umemoto chief 23 obliterated vast swathes 23 soothe frayed 23 swallowing bitter pill 23 Vote Nears 23 sponsor Yariv Levin 23 Lame Duck Session 23 expressing unhappiness 23 happening 23 defunds 23 snowballed 23 Guiliano Razzoli won 23 denting 23 Vasant Panchami 23 calling waterboarding repugnant 23 Akha Teej 23 Kmart Longs Drug 23 Hindalco Hero Honda 23 Brendan Kealy 23 Trade Preference 23 rankle 23 Issue Heats Up 23 Diagnoses vary 23 spelled JOBS 23 fled Isea 23 bitterest pill 23 braced 23 rippled outward 23 derailed 23 realigning runways 23 SACRAMENTO CA KFSN 23 lingering 23 heavily indebted eurozone 23 rings alarm bells 23 hyperinflationary depression 23 mudslides Yun 23 stalled 23 shrugged 23 Shakespearean tragedy 23 Dehiba Wazin crossing 23 outdueled Martin Brodeur 23 mea sures 23 resurgent 23 minting millionaires 23 toughen 23 GLOBAL MARKETS WEEKAHEAD 23 treaded carefully 23 Lufthansa AUA 23 douse fuel rods 23 Voter Anger 23 Storms pummel 23 sprawling 23 climbing Mont Blanc 23 imperial overreach