Word: friction
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...devouring itself is depressing precisely because the scenes are so familiar from the past. More troubling, though, is what last week's mayhem says about the country's future. Even after partition, India ended up with one of the largest Muslim populations in the world, now numbering 150 million. Friction with the Hindu majority is inescapable. But the long-term solution for national harmony believed in by hundreds of millions for decades - a purely secular state that respects all religions equally - is looking increasingly like some hoary fantasy. Vajpayee and his BJP claim to believe in secularism, but they came...
...Friction between the athletic department and the club tennis team has a precedent...
...feud between Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers and Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West ’74 has become old news; indeed, it seems that at least some of the friction was hype created by the media’s ever-present desire to have a feeding frenzy at Harvard’s expense. Still, the issues this controversy raises are anything but ephemeral, cutting to the heart of some of the most fundamental principles upon which Harvard—or for that matter any University—is based...
There were money problems as well. Despite weak advertising, Brown was a notorious big spender ("I did not go over budget [at Talk]," she insisted to TIME), and in just 2 1/2 years, Talk's losses swelled to an estimated $50 million. There was friction between Brown and her backers, Hearst executives and Harvey Weinstein, the hard-charging Miramax co-chairman. While Talk actually increased its ad pages and revenue in 2001, the post-Sept. 11 economic slump appeared to deliver the coup de grace. Said Talk Media president Ron Galotti, "It became fairly bleak for someone...not part...
Audiences unreceptive to his mantra of change haven’t daunted him. The friction with Afro-American studies is only the most visible of the disputes this fall...