Word: friction
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...been several years since Design School has conducted a study of such magnitude for the city, and some suggest friction between Cambridge and Harvard may be hampering attempts at joint work by Design School and the city...
...takes two to tango," says Vigier. "There is a great deal of friction and misunderstanding between the city and the university...
...Russian history, and the Soviet army has always been firmly under civilian control. "A lot of military people are distressed," says retired U.S. General William Odom, former chief of the National Security Agency who is now at the Hudson Institute, "but it would be a mistake to see the friction as evidence of coup thinking." In any case, he says, the brass is snapping back at its civilian critics with Gorbachev's permission, in order to release some of the tensions...
...this taught us to see the world in bipolar terms as two enormous forces -- one a defender of freedom, the other a source of nightmares. Europe became the point of friction between these two powers, and thus it turned into a single enormous arsenal divided into two parts. In this process, one half of the arsenal became part of that nightmarish power, while the other, the free part, bordering on the ocean and having no wish to be driven into it, was compelled, together with you, to build a complicated security system to which we probably owe the fact that...
Right-to-die questions generate powerful sparks of moral friction. They clash against two basic values, says Daniel Callahan, director of the Hastings Center, an ethics think tank. "One is the sanctity of life, with its religious roots; the other is the technological imperative to do everything possible to save a life. Put together they are like a locomotive running at 100 miles an hour." The sweep of that force troubles many experts. Says George Annas of Boston University's School of Medicine: "The technological imperative obliterates the person altogether. It acts as if the person doesn't exist -- that...