Word: frayed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Even Harvard could be pulled into the fray with Wellesley and Kean. An advertisement that ran in yesterday's Crimson hints at criticism of the chair of Harvard's Afro-American Studies department for his tolerance of Jews...
...Yeltsin two weeks ago, Clinton advised the Russian President to roll up his sleeves and begin wheeling and dealing with the parliament, putting together majorities piece by piece, issue by issue. But Yeltsin is not a consensus-building politician, and that would require him to change his above-the-fray style totally...
...Georgia. His televised repentance bought his release, allowing him to run for President in 1991. Once in office, however, he muzzled the press, imprisoned rivals and stonewalled parliament. He was overthrown in 1992. Undeterred, Gamsakhurdia unleashed a civil war that was quieted only after Russian troops joined the fray on the side of President Eduard Shevardnadze, who, when he heard of his rival's death, pronounced that the man had been "a political corpse for a long time." Without confirmation of when, how or even if Gamsakhurdia died, it is not yet certain whether Georgia's knight-errant...
...handful of Boston Globe executives and columnists also showed up. Mike Barnicle, the Globe's tough-talking, let's-get-into-the-fray metro columnist is among the group...
Local governments are trapped into a classical Prisoner's Dilemma. If all governments refrained from granting incentives, they would generally gain; but it behooves each local government to entice businesses, which then puts all the other local governments at a competitive disadvantage if they don't jump in the fray...