Word: chafes
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...Father Gleb Yakunin, 45, arrested in Moscow, leads Russian Orthodox believers who chafe under state control of church affairs...
...Most Gordon students are satisfied with the rules, or they chafe a little and go along with them," Stuart J. Foster '81, who transferred to Harvard from Gordon last year, says. He adds that because many Gordon students routinely follow the school's regulations without thinking about the underlying Christian principles the school is trying to instill, they never have a chance to develop personal responsibility...
These harsh realities are every bit as troubling to oilmen as to anybody else. They chafe at charges that they belong to some sort of seamless monolith, and they are bewildered by the public's suspicions. The dismay is understandable. Hardly the conspiratorial business that it is widely thought to be, the 1.8 million-employee industry operates in an intensely competitive arena...
Students also chafe at the idea of investing five to ten years in training. Says Weber: "I wanted to be self-reliant and established sooner in life than a medical career would allow." Some students also fear that increasing Government control will restrict the freedom and financial rewards of a medical career. At the same time, the outlook in other careers is brightening. Business and engineering are two fields now attracting many would-be physicians...
...took me a while to chafe through things like drugs and meditation. I got fixated on something and tried to catch it. It takes a while to realize, but reality dissolves as soon as you look...