Word: tension
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Certainly, there should be room for friction, dissension and difference of opinion in an academic community—a University devoted to open and honest discourse is based on argument. And, certainly, one can expect some tension between a candidate and those who view him as a potential “spoiler” in an important election. But the kind of unimaginative and disrespectful proselytizing of the LaRouche supporters in question or the openly combative College Dems—not to mention Nader’s unimpressive and angry sensitivity to such taunting—is frustrating. The Forum...
...Labor Party leader's pitch for government includes a pledge to redirect money going to Australia's wealthiest schools toward more needy ones, with Catholic schools set to receive the bulk of it. To many people, this makes Latham a hero. Others are appalled. "The prospect of sectarian tension," says Bill Daniels, executive director of the Independent Schools Council of Australia, "is something this country just doesn't need...
...world that had long been ignored by most of the outside world, save when its exploitation proved profitable. Mexico has seen an odd combination of civilian rule and illiberal policy, of great growth and modernization and extreme poverty and remnants of an old system, which created a constant tension between the successfully co-opting government and those few who sought to protest the lingering injustices. The Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) long held virtually complete power and brought many changes to larger Mexico, but few to Chiapas...
...critiques and ideas into account, a number of challenges need to be put forth to the intellectuals in the discipline. Harvard’s Dubois Institute, by virtue of the overwhelming talent and prestige of the department, as well as the media coverage garnered every time there is any tension between the department and the larger university, is in a particularly powerful position to answer these challenges and defend the discipline against renewed criticisms of its legitimacy as an academic discipline and its relevance in the larger world...
...brilliant lawyer father, who is so competitive that he holds the record for most footnotes in a legal article, once attempted to read the Encyclopaedia Britannica but quit in the B's. But even more important to Jacobs' emotional maturation than one-upping his dad is dealing with the tension of failing, over and over, to get his wife pregnant. Although, really, you don't expect a guy who goes to the Britannica headquarters in Chicago to report two errors to have boys that swim really fast...