Word: tensioning
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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With each notch up in tension, the whole rebuilding enterprise becomes more difficult. The fighting has grown so intense, security costs that were supposed to account for about 10% of the $18 billion in reconstruction money through September 2004 are instead running at 25%. Major contractors like General Electric and Siemens AG are scaling back their efforts because of the unsafe environment. Money and energy that were meant to go into new schools and new water-treatment plants are diverted toward rebuilding bombed police stations and retraining Iraqi troops...
...after an ambush by al-Sadr's forces killed eight U.S. soldiers. Since then, about 100 of the 700 members of the 306th Battalion have gone missing in action. Of the rest, say the U.S. soldiers at the camp, 90% fail to show up on days of high tension. Those officers who have remained on the job--men like Raied, a former master sergeant in the old Iraqi army--say the bloody fighting that had gripped the country over the past month was a watershed; local people have turned against the U.S. and the ICDC. Morale has been shattered...
Jungle says almost everything I feel as well—its obsessively tangled drums, alternately warm and oppressive basslines, and intrinsic anxiety (brought about by its own confused tension between art and formula) are like a physical reflection of me. Or maybe I’ve also taken on its outline to a degree. That’s probably why I’ve stuck with the genre as it’s lost all its hipster potential and sunk to the bottom of the dance hierarchy in the past five years. At its best, the music reminds...
Building community occurs between the SUP camps as well. The directors and counselors plan joint field trips, called Operation Together, for camps in communities that historically have had tension between them, Garcia says...
...Harvard basketball team appeared to get just that—just felt it, maybe, as a suddenly energetic crowd urged them on—and the team unwrapped a lovely Valentine’s Day present for the Bulldog faithful with pre-game journalistic assaults having only heightened the tension...