Word: friction
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...brilliant writer make her an ace detective, namely, her quick wit and her psychological acuity. Barron's cause is also aided by her deft marshaling of historical detail--the textiles alone (Sprigged muslin! Bombazine!) are worth the price of admission--and, of course, a dash of genuine erotic friction between Jane and the roguish Lord Harold. Barron is scrupulously faithful to the historical record, so we know that Jane will never actually get married. But shouldn't we let her--and Barron and ourselves--have a little fun along...
...Finneran) is not averse to wanting power and not afraid of using that power,” he says. “Now, having a governor who is used to making a decision and having it implemented—I think it creates some friction...
...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...