What is the current state of affairs of Iran’s nuclear program?
Work out a set of measures to prevent a threatening scenario and discuss it. Try to predict possible countermeasures of Iran.
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| 104) contemplate the future
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| 105) disrupt supplies
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| 106) shut off the pipeline
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| 107) feud over gas and oil prices
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| 108) cut off the oil pipeline
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| 109) a stand-off
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| 110) diversify its energy supplies
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| 111) security of supply renewed
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| 112) (be)built on unknowing
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| 113) biofuels
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| 114) hydrogen economy
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| 115) raise the matter
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| 116) Western consumers
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| 117) develop a more coherent
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| 118) response on energy
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| 119) otherwise
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| 120) play the game on their terms
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| 121) a political tool
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| 122) contribute to
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| 123) renewed investment
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Study and speak about the consecutive steps undertaken by the European community to protect the European economy from unpredicted shut-offs.
Map out the most problematic areas
Vocabulary 6
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| 124) face tougher security checks
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| 125) major source of terrorism
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| 126) the top US official
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| 127) details emerge of
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| 128) an al-Qaeda internet presence
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| 129) visa waiver program
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| 130) fill in on-line forms
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| 131) Homeland Security
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| 132) home-grown terrorism
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| 133) (be) mindful of
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| 134) increasingly
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| 135) prolific supporter
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| 136) car bomb design
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| 137) host chat rooms
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| 138) link into wider networks
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| 139) a fully-fledged al-Qaeda network
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| 140) a posting on a website
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| 141) a password protected site
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| 142) jihadists
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| 143) aspirational
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| 144) cells operating in this country
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| 145) psychological warfare
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| 146) waning influence
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| 147) a sign of its future intent
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Find information about latest terrorist attacks committed on public transport.
Speak about security measures that can be undertaken to protect civilians from terrorist attacks.
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| 148) trade turnover between
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| 149) amount to
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| 150) map out one’s plans
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| 151) enough room
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| 152) lop-sided trade
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| 153) US government oversight
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| 154) scrutinize
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| 155) commodity exchange
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| 156) exports of raw materials prevail
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| 157) commission on export control
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| 158) mutually beneficial in character
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| 159) so far
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| 160) merely
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| 161) immediate profits
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| 162) a switch to smth
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| 163) innovative economy
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| 164) an overhaul of
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| 165) outmoded industries
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| 166) gradual replacement with
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| 168) rough-and-tumble
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| 169) hampered by various factors
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| 171) advanced technologies
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| 172) discriminatory measures
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| 173) tap its full potential
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| 174) likewise
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| 175) lift restrictions
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Speak about the current state of affairs of US-Russian cooperation in the sphere of the most advanced technologies.
Suggest a joint project and present it to an imaginary body which is to decide whether invest your project or not.
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| 176) landmark speech
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| 177) confront one’s shortcomings
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| 178) eradicate
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| 179) years of mistrust
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| 180) lay the groundwork
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| 181) (be) off-key
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| 182) hit the right note
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| 183) a beacon of Islamic learning
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| 184) assalaamu alaykum
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| 185) have a huge build up
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| 186) redefine the relationship
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| 187) (be) not exclusive
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| 188) (be) used as proxies
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| 189) unequivocally prohibited
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| 190) build Jewish neighbourhoods
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| 191) land claimed by Palestinians
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| 192) undermine efforts
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| 193) avoid some topic carefully
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| 194) abandon violence
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| 195) admonishments on smth
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| 196) face challenges in good faith
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| 197) reserve one’s final judgment
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Speak about B. Obama’s policy in the Middle East.
Work out a declaration on US-Middle East cooperation in the sphere of education.
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| 200) launched in Kazakhstan
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| 201) Earth-like planets
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| 202) outside the solar system
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| 203) monitor smth
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| 204) the brightness of stars
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| 205) hundreds of thousands
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| 206) characteristic twinkle
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| 207) Russian-built Soyuz rocket
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| 208) blast off
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| 209) Baikonur Cosmodrome
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| 210) a satellite
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| 211) spend some years in orbit
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| 212) onboard
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| 213) measure minute changes
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| 214) detect planets
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| 216) an eclipse
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| 217) close to impossible
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| 218) exoplanets
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| 220) support life
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Find information about the latest multinational space missions and speak about them.
Think about possible tasks of such a mission in a five years. How can the goals change with time?
Vocabulary 10
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| 221) an astronaut
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| 222) return from one’s stint
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| 223) on the space station
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| 224) age-related osteoporosis
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| 225) set in
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| 226) crew members
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| 227) bone mass
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| 230) on a regular basis
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| 231) deprived of gravity
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| 232) a model for ageing
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| 233) weight bearing
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| 238) accelerated ageing
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| 241) subtle spring
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| 242) fracture
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| 243) femur
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| 244) thighbone
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| 245) bone density loss
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| 246) zero gravity
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What is being done by scientists to prevent damage to cosmonauts’ health?
Discuss the possible recommendations to space tourists
Vocabulary 11
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| 248) top police investigator
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| 249) alleged
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| 250) involvement with a syndicate
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| 251) criminal corruption
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| 252) levelled at a senior policeman
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| 253) an elite crime fighting agency
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| 255) law enforcement community
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| 256) an elite unit
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| 257) a cocaine smuggling ring
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| 258) Raid
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| 259) the Crime Commission's
260) offices
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| 261) a major chemical
a. importation plot
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| 262) policing circles
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| 263) police Sydney's docks
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| 264) one’s arrest has sent
265) shock waves
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| 266) a senior police officer
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| 267) controversial
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| 268) an alleged conspiracy
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| 269) border controlled precursor
270) chemical
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| 271) links to Asia
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| 272) ramifications
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| 273) investigative powers
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| 274) compel witnesses to testify
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| 275) conduct operations
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| 276) covert surveillance
b. operations
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| 277) there is growing concern
c. among lawyers
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| 278) it's about time
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| 279) a judicial officer
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| 280) (be) given full power
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| 281) fulfil an organization’s
d. charter
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Study the media information related to drug issues. What are the most flagrant cases?
Set up an imaginary commission which is to deal with police involvement in drug trade. What experts should be invited? Why?
Vocabulary 12
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| 238) crystal methamphetamine
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| 239) the Salvation Army's
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| 240) detox centre
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| 241) charity
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| 242) a drop-off in the numbers of people
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| 243) people addicted to ice
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| 244) a spiked increase
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| 245) National Drug and Alcohol
Research Centre
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| 246) get a bad reputation
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| 247) have negative effects
of using a drug
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| 248) check oneself in for a
drug addiction
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| 249) get into punch-ups
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| 250) burn down smth to
a puddle on the ground
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| 251) annual drug figures
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| 252) availability
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| 253) constantly evolving challenge
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| 254) take a firm line on smth
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| 255) the use of illicit drugs
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| 256) highlight the dangers of a drug
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| 257) pleasing
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What countries are the most successful in their war on drugs?
Compose a charter of an international organization which can aim to protect society from the drug-related crime.
Vocabulary 14
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| 258) step down as President
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| 259) hand over\ transfer power to smb
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| 260) temporarily
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| 261) spark boisterous/little reaction
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| 262) a revolutionary icon
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| 263) rumpled
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| 264) military fatigues
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| 265) dodge smth thrown at smb
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| 266) an invasion bid
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| 267) an assassination plot
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| 268) trade embargo
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| 269) take the world to the brink of nuclear war
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| 270) let some country put ballistic missiles
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| 271) a 13-day stand-off
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| 272) constitute an explicit threat to smth
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| 273) leave office in a coffin
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| 274) a military coup
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| 275) on his own terms
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| 276) secure a smooth transition of power to smb
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| 277) every single effort
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| 278) pragmatic policy of civil relations
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| 279) motorists are honking their horns
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Compose three possible scenarios of Cuba’s development in the next decade?
Vocabulary 14
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| 280) blanket ban on flights
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| 281) volcanic cloud
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| 282) volcanic ash
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| 283) catastrophic engine failure
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| 284) bank-up of passengers
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| 285) frustrated
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| 286) stranded passengers/commuters
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| 287) uneasy scene
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| 288) yell and jeer at police
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| 289) immigration delays
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| 290) civil unrest
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| 291) publicans
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| 292) air lockdown
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| 293) reassess the blanket ban
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| 294) set up a hub
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| 295) reasonable lift capacity
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| 296) lift people
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| 297) effect pharmaceutical supplies
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| 298) bone-marrow donation deliveries
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What natural disasters are most often reported in news programs?
Analyse the measures of airports and airlines in April, 2010 after Iceland’s volcano eruption?
What could have been done differently?
Vocabulary 15
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| 299) the Korean Peninsula
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| 300) vow to push ahead with
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| 301) a live-fire military exercise
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| 302) grave threats of retaliation
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| 303) shell some place
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| 304) convene a meeting
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| 305) Yeonpyeong Island
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| 306) bombardment
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| 307) artillery strikes
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| 308) shelling exercise
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| 309) barrage
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| 310) teeter on the brink of war
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| 311) military drill
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| 312) fire-and-brimstone warnings
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| 313) sick and tired
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| 314) bow before one’s threats
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| 315) scream for revenge
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| 316) shelling attack
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| 317) regime's brutality
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| 318) starve of information
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| 319) stop shells from falling on smth
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Why situation in the Korean Peninsula is especially dangerous?
Write a note of protest of one party to another bearing in mind the situation in the Korean Peninsula.
Vocabulary 16
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| 320) lawyers for smb
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| 321) the death penalty
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| 322) build a case against smb
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| 323) have smb extradited
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| 324) face ( some crime)charges
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| 325) sexual assault
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| 326) grant permission
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| 327) hand legal argument to the
media
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| 328) a house arrest
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| 329) a condition of one’s bail
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| 330) raise the ire
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| 331) classified US government
cables
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| 332) the army intelligence
analyst in custody
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| 333) unabated
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| 334) Cablegate
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| 335) whistleblower
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| 336) take legal revenge against
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| 337) an ex lover
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| 338) a pretext for a criminal
prosecution
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| 339) land smb in an electric chair
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| 340) foreign jurisdictions
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| 341) face torture
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| 342) in the appalling state
of affairs
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| 343) give a firm commitment
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| 344) render or permit to be
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| 345) the realms of proper justice
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1. Why has Julian Assange’s case acquired the worldwide publicity?
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