Word: friction
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...once inevitable and shockingly abrupt. Alexander Meigs Haig, 57, had been out of tune with much of the rest of the Reagan Administration from the day he took office 17 months ago as the self-proclaimed "vicar" of American foreign policy. He had been worn down by incessant friction with colleagues-much of it self-created-in the unending battle for the President's ear, and he had said he would quit so many times that the threat of resignation had become a Washington joke. This time, however, Reagan was also worn down by the friction and was fully...
...flight with an extremely sensitive infrared homing system that guides the warhead toward the enemy jet at 1,650 m.p.h., faster than 95% of the planes in the Syrian air force. The new Sidewinders are so sensitive that they can lock in on the heat created by air friction on a jet's surface. The Israeli Sidewinders, like most of the electronic equipment on the aircraft, are not standard U.S. issue: they have been adapted and improved in the light of experience gained by Israel's constant sorties over Lebanon since...
...White House, some presidential aides suspect that Inman's friction with Allen, who quit in January after disclosure that he had accepted gifts from a Japanese magazine, spilled over into hostility between Inman and Casey, since Casey and Allen had long been allies. Inman concedes that the "air might have had a little strain in it" when Casey was being investigated and Inman was seen as a successor, but he insisted, "The personal working relationship has been very easy from the start...
Historians and political scientists with long memories contend that Congress has often been ponderous, frustratingly slow and unharnessable. Shortly after Franklin Roosevelt's sensational, Depression-generated 100 days, a Democratic-controlled Congress soon reverted to its traditional friction with the White House, leading F.D.R. to com plain about its mulishness...
...watchdog of administration policies rather than as an accomplice--showed he has been recruited into the stalling maneuvers. Herbert P. Wilkins '51, a Massachusetts State Supreme Court Justice, blatantly contradicted a public statement he made last year promising the release of a long-awaited report on all facets of "friction" between Harvard and the city of Cambridge...