Word: frayed
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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Jesse is flanked on his right by distinguished black faculty. To his left, familiar faces. It seems local politicians she knows well from the City beat have jumped into the fray. And lined up in front of Jackson’s table, the national media...
...cloning issue has been debated extensively in the politically charged hallways of Capitol Hill. Now a new, wholly unfamiliar perspective enters the fray - cool, calm, objective and, not coincidentally, scientific...
...manager—to do that sometimes. And no one is exempt from such a challenge, even a sharply worded one; it’s simply a part of life. Those who cried “racism” and brought Jesse Jackson and others into the fray acted, I thought, in a cowardly as well as a bullying fashion...
With a department teetering on the verge of revolt and national figures joining the fray, the controversy over Afro-American studies threatens to snowball into a more broadly based criticism of Summers’ tenure as president...
...Members of Bush's own party realize a wartime president can't play legislative cop all the time, but they are now pleading for action. "I understand what he's doing staying above the fray," says Ohio Congressman Rob Portman, a key White House ally on the Hill, "but the president is going to have to engage a little more if he doesn't want us to be paralyzed." Some high ranking Republicans are less modulated than Portman, complaining that the White House is selling out fellow Republicans to protect the president's political interests. As Bush blames Congress...