Word: friction
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...familiar warmth of your blocking group's table doesn't do the trick. The same can be said for shared laundry rooms and entryways. Teas, open houses, and other opportunities for mingling do not themselves sustain community, nor does the shared space of dining halls and laundry rooms. Friction, it seems, does not always lead to friendship...
Caroline chose St. Thomas More, a small, neighborhood Roman Catholic church a few blocks from their mother's Fifth Avenue apartment, where she and John had gone to Mass as children. Despite reports of family friction over the choice of venue, a source familiar with the arrangements told TIME, "From Day One, it was always going to be at this church." The church, with its English pastoral, beige-stone sanctuary, is plain, and for the ceremony it was furnished simply. Two white hydrangea flower arrangements sat on either side of the altar on the floor. To gain access, almost every...
...other policy friction between Bill and Hillary involves the effect that $5 billion in Administration-proposed Medicare cuts would have on New York teaching hospitals in the next five years. She talks frequently these days about getting New York "its fair share," and here's an issue where she has a chance to do so. Moynihan is sponsoring legislation to restore the cuts; Senator Chuck Schumer and Dennis Rivera, New York's hospital workers' union chief and a key Hillary supporter, recently arranged a White House meeting to discuss them. Hillary attended and voiced support for New York's cause...
Despite the lovefest, says TIME Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyer, "the relationship won?t be entirely free of friction. Under Netanyahu the U.S. became intimately involved in negotiating agreements and refereeing their implementation. Barak wants the U.S. to step back from that role and allow Israel to settle disputes directly with the Palestinians." That?s not as simple as it may sound, because the Palestinians have very little leverage and could therefore become obstinate if they feel steamrollered by Israel. "Reducing the American role gives Israel a natural advantage as the stronger party, and that makes the Palestinians edgy about...
Here's the pitch: capitalism thrives on the reduction of friction, and the Web is the most effective friction reducer since the assembly line. The dot-com revolution hit first for consumers; as soon as Amazon, for instance, put millions of discount books within buying reach of anyone with a modem and a credit card, ordinary bookstores had to change or die. "E-markets have had a very significant impact," says Tim Minahan, an e-commerce analyst for the Aberdeen Group. "And you're going to see that on the business side as well...