Why, then, did Mr Blair take trouble this week to stir things up?

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In an effort to quell that skittishness and stir things up, Reilly says that Fox won't be taking comedy pitches in its sterile offices anymore.

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If destabilisation is their aim, they will quickly stir things up, just as they did in East Timor when the territory voted last year to split from Indonesia.

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Milosevic may also be calculating that Washington won't go beyond hot air for fear that he might stir things up in Bosnia, where several thousand of our troops are located.

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By contrast, modest black-hole activity can stir things up and encourage the formation of the kinds of elements (carbon, oxygen and so on) that are essential for life as we know it.

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That should stir things up.

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And if our response ends up being, because we don't want to -- we don't want to stir things up here, we're just going to do the same thing that was being done before, then I don't know what differentiates us from the other guys.

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