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DEFINITION: (noun) A protruding abdomen. SYNONYMS: belly. USAGE: Jim's bride was an excellent cook, and after only a few weeks of marriage, he began to develop a significant paunch.

The Nord Stream pipeline is a planned natural gas pipeline that will run from Russia to Northern Germany across the Baltic Sea. Russian and German officials claim that the pipeline will lead to economic savings by bypassing transit countries and avoiding transit-fees, but environmentalists fear that it might dislodge toxic material dumped on the Baltic seabed. German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder was a major proponent of the pipeline project. Why are his activities now being scrutinized?