Word: friction
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...policy initiatives." To British voters, arrogance and Brus-sels are intertwined - yet another trap for Blair. And even if somehow, sometime, they could be persuaded to vote Britain into the single currency, the process of joining would be awkward on both sides. "Britain might be a source of considerable friction in the euro zone," says Daniel Gros, director of the Centre for European Policy Studies in Brussels, because of its free-market ways and likely disdain for euro-zone norms. In this forest of difficulties, the euro at least has one unquestioned virtue. It gives Blair proof of the oldest...
...Hilliard ’03 finds himself almost entirely unable to speak like a normal person under any circumstances. His recent description of Karen W. Milford ’03 as “that bitch I be nutting on” has caused quite a bit of friction, given that Milford is his fiancé and the description in question came during a dinner with her extremely Catholic parents?...
...Chirac's phone call on Tuesday to Bush - their first conversation since Feb. 7, characterized as "positive" by the Elysée and as "business-like" by the White House - was a station of the cross on that pre-Easter walk to resurrection. "We are keen to avoid further friction," says a senior French Foreign Ministry official. The watchword in Paris seems to have changed from principle to pragmatism. The first fences to mend are those with some of France's European Union partners. In Athens last week, E.U. leaders offered a picture of comity as they formally signed accession...
...mathematicians’ model also called for abrasive—a high-friction substance—to be added to the boxes to increase the pyramid’s effectiveness in cushioning the blow...
...attributed much of the friction between America and Pakistan to their differing perceptions of threats to their countries’ security...