Word: tensioning
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...perception that the Continent's fate is not in its own hands but in those of the superpowers. There are signs that Eastern Europe too is experiencing a change. Says Rumanian-born Political Scientist Pierre Hassner, a research fellow at Paris' National Foundation of Political Science: "There is a tension between the rigid East-West strategic balance on the one hand and changing popular attitudes and life-styles on the other. The security arrangement has guaranteed four decades of peace, but people are increasingly weary of a system that represses their aspirations...
...counter-force to a Soviet buildup of medium-range SS-20s. The era of mammoth demonstrations seems to have passed, but a pacifist current remains. With the notable exception of France, it has penetrated the main opposition parties of many West European countries and has caused occasional tension within the North Atlantic Treaty Organization over questions of arms control, space weaponry and the state of superpower relations...
Both wore into their third sets with palpable tension, but Kumar ultimately fell 7-6, 1-6, 3-6, giving the Lions the fourth point and the dual-match...
...daughter Pat suspended on a ferris wheel in the dark for hours on the set of Strangers on a Train. It does appear however that he said, “Actors are cattle,” though he denies it, and that there was a great deal of tension between him and Tippi Hedren after filming The Birds and Marnie together...
...Crash begins, people of Hispanic, Korean, African, Caucasian, and Middle-Eastern descent verbally tear holes in each other—a Martian could pick up on the racial tension...