Word: tensioning
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...that often appears to permeate the process; there is a reluctance in Congress to appear to be using the ethics committees to essentially overturn voters? choice in a given district. For the same reason, Justice, too, has generally been loath to move precipitously against congressmen. And there is always tension between the Justice Department and the ethics committees, with the congressional panels usually holding off on investigating or punishing a congressman caught up in a criminal probe-and then acting based on whether or not the member is convicted...
...world?s most populopus democracy have often been rocky. India enjoyed close relations with the Soviet Union during most of the Cold War, while the U.S. often sided with its bitter neighbor Pakistan. India's nuclear program - the country detonated its first atomic weapon in 1974 - also made for tension over the years...
Although the tension between Summers and the University’s faculty has made national news for much of his tenure, many visitors—and even the occasional Cantabrigian—were caught off-guard by news of the president’s resignation yesterday afternoon...
...than sociologists, so they should be paid accordingly. The brusque handling of mild-mannered Kirby?s departure was, in the minds of many, an insult too many, with rumors of dismissal leaking from the President?s Office and preempting the customarily genteel resignation process. ?If anyone could have eased tension between Summers and the faculty, it was Dean Kirby,? says Matory. ?But he even drove Kirby to the edge...
...next problem set for “Reality Physics.” Perplexed visitors are asked to match his paintings with titles such as “c) Freely falling object,” or “f) Object(s) in equilibrium via normal force and tension of the string...