Word: friction
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...museum in 1998. Other staff members were alienated when he hired as his chief of staff Jill Murphy--a 33-year-old with little art experience; she has announced that she'll leave at the end of the year. Munitz, who denies allegations of profligate spending, says that friction was to be expected: "You cannot run a big, complicated institution and take risks and make change and not have some people unhappy...
...roughly fitting back on, the lining allows the pen to slide gently into and out of the cap, allowing overworked first-year analysts to at least simulate what they no longer have time to actually experience. One negative, however, is that the rubber creates a bit too much friction when putting the cap on. Next year, UBS may want to make the lining self-lubricated...
...restless bedfellow. In addition to the rift over the flat tax, Kaczynski says he'll push for a more "social" economic policy, and limit privatization in sectors deemed vital to the "security of the state." There could be personal, as well as policy, differences, too. There was some early friction last week when Kaczynski said that if the Civic Platform took all the top government posts, there would be no coalition. "A compromise is possible," snapped Bronislaw Komorowski, a senior Civic Platform leader, "but not on the basis of blackmail that someone has a right to this or that post...
...President's priority--and my mission--was to focus on WMD," Kay told TIME. "Abizaid needed help with the counterinsurgency. He said, 'You have the only organization in this country that's working.' But military guys are not used to people telling them no, and so, yes, there was friction...
...tensions this summer. First there was the uproar about textile quotas. Since Jan. 1 when global textile quotas were abolished, Chinese textiles have flooded American markets, resulting in job losses and industry complaints. The ensuing negotiations, which are still progressing unhurriedly and uncertainly, have been the cause of much friction between Beijing and Washington. Another touchy area is that of China’s currency. Many U.S. trade groups accuse China of keeping the yuan artificially cheap to bolster exports. The yuan was revalued in July from a direct 8.28 peg to the U.S. dollar to an approximately 8.11 managed...