Word: tensioning
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...begging for bailouts now that they're broke. And politicians are dusting off their unfunded mobster museums, waterslides and other pet projects for rebranding as shovel-ready infrastructure investments. As Obama's aides scramble to assemble something effective and transformative as well as politically achievable, they acknowledge the tension between his desires for speed and reform. "We're living that tension every day," an adviser tells TIME...
...constitute the largest of each respective community in Europe. Memories of the violence inspired by Israel-Palestinian clashes in 2002 and by Israel's offensive in Lebanon in 2006, prompted quick appeals for calm after the latest incidents. French President Nicolas Sarkozy declared "our country will not tolerate international tension mutating into inter-community violence", and promised no perpetrator of such trouble would "remain unpunished...
...said Noah Berger, the executive director of the Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center. The state currently taxes up to $14,000 of employee income. Margaret Monsell, an attorney at the Massachusetts Law Reform Institute, voiced similar suggestions. “There’s some kind of tension between the amount of taxes paid—which is based on a fairly low number—and benefits received, which in a high wage, high cost-of-living state like Massachusetts is fairly high,” Monsell said. “I think increasing the taxable wage base...
...bottle of wine, a hard-luck story and a devil-may-care attitude." Fowler, 46, a freelance writer and editor whose guests were mainly fellow media types and academics in their 40s and 50s, says, "It was fun to spit in the eye of impending doom. All of this tension is a lot more tolerable if you can have some fun and look it right in the face and call it what it is. And have a stiff drink...
...Israel will need to move carefully. Air strikes that kill large numbers of Palestinian civilians are only likely to fuel support for Hamas and ramp up international pressure to end the operation quickly. (See pictures of Gaza border tension...