Word: friction
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...strength of the play lied with the actors and proved sufficient. Though friction between convention and creativity permeated the play, it did not rob its ultimate goal and, in fact, greatest success: providing a wonderfully whimsical comedy on a midsummer night...
...Traditionally, the commune's friction with local police has been over drug policy. Pusher Street, Christiania's ramshackle main thoroughfare, allowed cannabis dealers to display their wares in glass-topped cabinets, graded according to strength - until a police incursion in 2003. Still, the authorities claim, some $200,000 of marijuana is still bought and sold every day in Christiania, and critics charge that the commune long ago sold out its ideals...
Critics say the rush to deploy a system before it's ready and in the face of the opposition of nominal allies is unnecessary, expensive and damaging. They say unilateral agreements between the U.S. on the one hand and Poland and Czech Republic on the other cause friction with other European countries and undermine support for missile defense. And they argue that Bush's insistence on pursuing deployment agreements now shows that the current push is less about the imminent threat than it is about his legacy. "Bush wants to make an irreversible move forward before he leaves office," says...
...Hizballah, which, although a Shi'ite group, is closely allied with Sunni Palestinian factions such as Hamas. With Lebanon balanced on a knife-edge, many fear that unrest could cause the country to stumble back into the civil war that ravaged it between 1975-90, itself ignited amid friction involving armed Palestinian groups...
...nonetheless closely allied with Sunni Palestinian factions like Hamas. With Lebanon balanced on a knife-edge since Hariri's killing two years ago, many fear that unrest could cause the country to stumble backwards into the civil war that ravaged the country between 1975-90, itself ignited amid friction involving armed Palestinian groups...