Word: standoff
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After six days of intermittent violence and confusion, the streets of the capital of Port-au-Prince were still tense late last week. Rival military troops maintained an uneasy standoff after nearly a week of exchanging shouted insults and machine-gun rounds. As the country slid toward chaos, a state of emergency was declared, independent radio stations were shut down and curfews were imposed...
...MOMA show marks the growing influence of Steven Holl, 41, whose ascetic yet lyrical architecture points a way out of the modernism-classicism standoff...
...horizon and tosses off jeremiads about his sightings. Lately he has been preaching against the rampant impulse for instant gratification. Americans "need to reinstill in ourselves a sense of the importance of the future," he argues. No one argues back in principle, but politics pushes back mercilessly. That standoff underscores a fascinating conflict between Darman's strategy and his psyche...
...standoff ended a short time later...
...first game was played under Harvard rules, and resulted in a Harvard win. The second game, played the next day and under Canadian rules, was a scoreless standoff...