Word: frictions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Friction intensified after last year's parliamentary elections, when Saleh awarded 21 of 31 Cabinet seats to his own party and a fundamentalist group from the North. Two months after the fundamentalist leader demanded the repeal of socialist-sponsored legislation last June, Al-Beidh angrily left San'a for the South and never returned...
Muller is able to ask intelligent questions about Riefenstahl's work because he himself is a director, but this common identity is also the cause of friction between the two. Riefenstahl is still serious about filmmaking, and she is an stubborn as any other director who has an artistic vision. Some of the more amusing parts of the film occur when Muller and Riefenstahl argue about he best way to make certain scenes work...
...rejection came amid rumors that Beys planned to "stir up friction" at this Sunday's meeting, according to an executive board member...
...Yanks, meanwhile, are talking about not playing free agent pickup Luis Polonia every day, which will cause to annoy him, and thus lead to friction on the team...
...Tomb of the Patriarchs was an obvious tinderbox. The military governor of Hebron, Colonel Shalom Goldstein, testified that 25 "incidents of friction" between Jewish and Muslim worshippers had been recorded there in the past year. Yet security discipline was slack. On the morning of the massacre, five of the six men who were supposed to be guarding the inside of the mosque were absent. Three arrived late, which one of them acknowledged was a common occurrence...