Word: tensioning
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...Japanese-North Korean relations are already at their lowest point in decades, having risen to a new level of tension after North Korea's last missile test, in 1998, when part of Taepodong-1 missile fell in Japanese waters...
...tension between liberty and security is as old as the Republic--and as new as the latest high-tech listening device. In wartime, that tension very often plays itself out as a battle between the White House and the press. It is doing so again now. The script is ever the same: the White House asserts it is the protector of our security; the press maintains it is the guardian of our liberty. * The stories in the New York Times and other newspapers about the government's highly classified program to monitor bank records have provoked outrage from the White...
...committee. As siblings, we may sulk and fume but by nighttime we still return to the same twin beds in the same shared room. Peace is made when one sib offers a toy or shares a thought or throws a pillow in a mock provocation that releases the lingering tension in a burst of roughhousing. Somewhere in there is the early training for the e-mail joke that breaks an office silence or the husband who signals that a fight is over by asking his wife what she thinks they should do about that fast-approaching vacation anyway. "Sibling relationships...
...this period in time,” Brush said of DiGiovanni in an interview with The Crimson. DiGiovanni declined to comment for this story, stating in an e-mail that “it is my policy not to discuss landlord/tenant relations in the newspaper.”The tension is only the most recent chapter in a long quarrel between Brush and DiGiovanni over the extended hours.Felipe’s first requested a CLC hearing on the subject in June 2005, Brush said, but postponed the proceeding at DiGiovanni’s request after the landlord insisted they...
...fashioned British enclave." He and his family soon find that nowhere is safe. The girls hear from their amah about the turmoil in their looming neighbor to the north: news of Chinese communists closing down schools and destroying homes during the Cultural Revolution. Their mother tries to escape the tension by surrounding herself with "the charm and comforts of the colonial era," taking lunches on the Peak, and attending services at St John's Cathedral...