Word: tensioning
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...This tension stems mainly from the fact that China prefers North Korea to exist, even in its impoverished and infuriating current form, as opposed to what it sees as the other possibility: a unified Korean peninsula aligned with the U.S. Klingner says Beijing has for years feared a North Korean implosion, in the manner of the former East Germany's, because it would come with costs both economic (refugees crossing the Chinese border) and diplomatic (the loss of a buffer state in a region that, though stable, is inhabited by countries that really don't like one another much...
...water rafter. A lesser but still pertinent entry was The Taking of Pelham One Two Three, which starred Robert Shaw as the criminal mastermind and Walter Matthau as the transit detective trying to talk him out of it. Among its many attractions, this was an action movie where the tension is conveyed mainly in phone calls betwen the killer...
...staff in July, when Garcia starts the fourth year of a five-year term that ends in July 2011. That is now politically untenable. The ministers have claimed so far that they have no intention of stepping down and the administration, while saying it wants dialogue to end the tension, maintains that it will not modify the series of laws that sparked the protests. The president, addressing a military ceremony over the weekend, said he had no intention of backpedaling, claiming that there was "a conspiracy afoot to keep Peru from using it natural riches." (Read a story about...
Rock musician Jay Bennett, 45, joined Wilco in 1995 at the behest of the band's front man, Jeff Tweedy, and helped the group create several critically acclaimed albums, including Yankee Hotel Foxtrot in 2002. That year he left the band amid tension with Tweedy over Wilco's musical direction...
...spontaneous injuries are as obvious as a rupture of the Achilles tendon. That ropelike cord in the back of our ankles carries enormous loads. It resists, literally, a thousand pounds of tension when a person, even of normal weight, runs or jumps. When the tendon pops, it's not subtle; many patients report actually hearing a bang. It hurts a lot. And most characteristically, they suddenly lose all "down power" in the ankle, making it impossible to get up on tiptoe...