Word: tensioning
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...case centers on the tension this creates with the board of directors who wonder why the team would want to change things when they seem to be working well,” Childress said. “Under the current measures they look very successful. Why make the goals more aggressive and risk creating the perception that they are not as good as the public thinks they...
...Click here for photographs of political tension in Zimbabwe...
...intra-Shi'ite political competition between Sadr, Maliki and the Supreme Iraqi Islamic Council - all of them backed to some degree by Iran - continues, and may intensify in local elections scheduled for early next year. Relations between Baghdad and the Kurdish autonomous region in the north remain troubled, with tension rising over the future status of the oil-rich city of Kirkuk. Indeed, General David Petraeus, the man most quoted by McCain in making his case on Iraq, has warned that the gains achieved in Iraq over the past year are "fragile" and "reversible." While the security situation has improved...
...Another source of tension appears to have been the Material Girl's growing distaste for Britain. "When Madonna first moved to the U.K., she loved the idea of becoming an English rose. But slowly it turned sour," the source said. "She doesn't have many friends here and as she turned 50 she has become very philosophical and started wondering what it's all about...
...soon as Hangen raised the baton, there was a palpable difference in the orchestra’s attentiveness. The musicians seemed to sit straighter in their chairs, and the audience waited silently. The brooding tone of the cellos in the prelude’s opening created a dark tension, with unresolved harmonies longing for fulfillment. Under Hangen’s direction, the orchestra members seemed to be more attentive to note quality and phrasing, and, for the first time that afternoon, a rich orchestral sound filled Sanders Theatre. With her long blond hair pulled back into a low bun, Harmer...