Word: frayed
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...committee. Some were rejected because their condition was fragile. There has been no major conservation." In an interview published in last month's issue of Art & Auction, Glanton (who is black) tried to nuke his critics with the claim that they were impelled by racism. Walter Annenberg entered the fray with the ponderous declamation that the hundred or so students who, headed by an engineer named Nick Tinari, are now seeking a court injunction to prevent the paintings leaving the U.S. are "just a bunch of complainers who act as if they're important figures in the art world. They...
Recently, the increasing number of pleas for human respect for flora and fauna have drawn on deep emotions and the moral imperative of conservation efforts. But until now, Agassiz Professor of Geology Stephen lay Gould has remained peripheral to the conservation fray, scoffing at what he calls the " shibboleths of the movement" and the "Catharsis" of any description of ecological deterioration...
...INITIAL STRATEGY WAS TO STAY ABOVE THE fray. As American firms like Compaq , and IBM brought low-cost personal computers to its shores, NEC, Japan's foremost personal computer manufacturer, controlling about 50% of the domestic market, loftily insisted that quality should take precedence over cost. But the price pressure got to the company. NEC has announced a new low-priced line, including one model for $1,740, about half the price of an earlier comparable machine...
...audiences beyond his borders, the aim is to shatter the Gulf War coalition, weaken resolve at the U.N. and transform the U.S. into the bully. "He may sense that the unity of the sanctions regime is starting to fray," says a State Department official. "The Russians have lots of things at home on their minds, and the Europeans have the Balkans." Saddam wants to ease the constraints imposed on his sovereignty and remove the conflict from the U.N. context: within those corridors, Iraq is putting itself forward as accommodating. "In our culture, once somebody comes to you with military threats...
...attempt to "cleanse" Kosovo of its population by violence or intimidation would put Serbia and Albania at each other's throats. At that point, either Greece or Turkey could enter the fray, quickly provoking the other to join the opposing side. Then large-scale Western intervention would be a matter not of debate, but of necessity...