Word: frayed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Maya Prabhu was going to be a low-profile council member--one of the quiet, hardworking types who spends her time on administrative initiatives and stays out of the political fray. She went to CORE committee meetings, worked to increase intellectual life in the houses. And then, sophomore year, came the date rapeissue...
...Clinton did not stop there. Alarmed at the impasse over health-care reform, he broke with his strategy of remaining above the fray in Congress. On Thursday and Friday, Clinton engaged Finance Committee members of both parties in one-on-one meetings and phone calls, seeking to discover what sort of compromise might win majority support. That is normally the chairman's job. However, said a Clinton aide, "this let-them-write-it-themselves stuff did not seem to work too well...
...would like to commend Carey publicly for staying above the fray and staying true to his beliefs. Because if it were me who was being unjustly attacked by Anjalee and others, I would have my lawyers on their case for libel and slander. But Carey's not like that...
...American Mind by Allan Bloom, Bellow's late friend and colleague at the University of Chicago. Yet even if It All Adds Up is more an agglomeration of rants than a systematic critique, it is inspiring to watch someone as august and honored as Bellow join the fray with such bareknuckle prose and such a passion for independence...
Monitoring in the run up to the elections involved attending mass political rallies and debates and ensuring that the process was correct, no intimidation took place and that party officials were not misinforming their constituents. In the event of a crisis, monitors were expected to leap into the fray and mediate. Only once did I have to do this, when members of the organizing party at a rally got a little hot under the collar at an opposition party which was distributing their party pamphlets within the meeting. In this case, once people had calmed down a little, apologies were...