Word: frictioned
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...that strict arms controls remain in place - a strict ban on weapons sales to Iraq, and other controls that prevent Saddam acquiring components for weapons of mass destruction. But they?re going to discuss eliminating a lot of the collateral controls that are causing a lot of friction between the U.S. and its allies and friends in the region. For example, eliminating restrictions that may impede, say, a planeload of doctors flying to Baghdad on a humanitarian mission. So Washington wants to reenergize sanctions on Iraq by making them more palatable to its Arab allies...
...Perkins, his bosses and his teachers think it's worth enduring a little friction to hear stories of students like Rosemont fourth-grader Briana Hopkins. Though her mother dropped out of college after two years and her elder brother forsook higher education for a job as a maintenance worker, Briana spent last summer taking enrichment classes at Coppin State and tells her mom how she wants to go off to college one day. Says Briana's mother JoAnn: "If going to college had been stressed earlier, it could have been totally different...
...result is a vertiginous, romantic clash--a war of wills between a wise god and a defiant young goddess. Just like the fruitful friction between a martial master and his demanding director...
...with shredded wheat and syrup, Peres and Arafat talked alone. By half past midnight, they had a deal. Arafat agreed to end the shooting--though not the stones and the Molotov cocktails. In return, Peres would persuade Barak to pull back some of Israel's tanks and troops from friction points in the West Bank and Gaza Strip...
...coolly effective driving force of the play, drops out entirely after the third act. None talk about where they come from or where they are going; any attempts to reconstruct a past are shouted down as lies. These people simply exist in the inn, and their incessant friction attempts to find out whether an indolence forced upon them by an unjust society can have any meaning. With nothing better to do, moral posturing is pervasive...