Word: friction
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...says the turnover will compound the departmental friction which presently plagues the force...
...Most of the dribs that have been released are coming from -- or have been carefully screened by -- Pentagon officials or their coalition equivalents. Inevitably, frustration with that eye-dropper approach has been on the rise, particularly among correspondents trying to cover the action. For others, less concerned with that friction than with monitoring the progress of the war, a pair of crucial questions came to the fore: Are they being told enough about what is happening on the battlefield? And can they trust what they are being told...
Several councillors drew parallels to the Inner Belt, a superhighway proposed in the late 1960s that would have run through Central Square. After years of friction with Transportation Department officials, the city ultimately managed to block that project...
...album tackles some sophisticated social and emotional issues while remaining largely upbeat, danceable and and positive. "The Growing Home" exemplifies the personal issues the album deals with, addressesing the friction between teens and their parents. It offers a fresh perspective on this traditional rock topic with its simple yet profound lyrical analysis, "We broke me down, we built me up and together we formed me." They sing the explanation: "I may seem rather reckless and the way I travel free, but I'm just growing up right now and it seems all right...
...contrast, a collapse of the Uruguay Round would undoubtedly lead to greater friction between major trading nations and increase the chances that the world will splinter into giant, exclusionary trading blocs. The negative consequences would not end there. The stability of poorer nations, including emerging East European democracies that will rely heavily on exports, would be seriously undermined. So would the chances of organizing alliances to deal with such international crises as the face-off in the Persian Gulf. A breakthrough is still possible, Hills declares, "because the upside is so fantastic and the downside of failure is so grim...