Word: tensioning
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...East Ender” and “British to the core” as well as a Muslim “occasionally known to pray.” The eagerness with which everyone is urgently underscoring the innocence and decency of most Muslims seems to indicate an underlying tension: some part of the population must need to be administered this information. The politicians fear a backlash...
...billion bid for Unocal?which threatens to trump a rival $16.5 billion offer by Chevron?has created a storm of opposition in Washington. To CNOOC's surprise and dismay, its bid has become a locus for all the angst some Americans feel about China's rising economy, adding further tension to already strained trade ties between the U.S. and China. The U.S. House of Representatives passed a resolution on June 30 warning that the proposed acquisition poses a threat to national security and urging the Bush Administration to block any deal...
...pincher, Bill the affable mechanic, and Doc, "adviser to the alley both as to physical ailments and mechanical ills." Women, at least at first, have only minor roles, with two exceptions. Mrs. Blossom, an attractive young lady of mysterious background appears halfway through this first volume to create some tension with the determined bachelor Walt. These sorts of plot developments - another involves a phony oil futures huckster - give the strip a narrative drive that take it well beyond a mere joke a day about cars and kids and into soap opera territory. The other major female character arrives after Walt...
...question-and-answer session after that followed the discussion, panelists downplayed the difficulties posed by ethnic differences, characterizing Sunni-Shiite-Kurdish tension as largely the invention of the Western media...
...more is at work in the world these days. The President's voice hints that he senses a yearning the world over for reducing tension, for paying more heed to people's needs. Maybe, he muses, they sense it in the Soviet Union too. "I've never believed I could break new ground with the General Secretary, that I could make him abandon his beliefs and embrace ours. The leopard is not going to change his spots. But what we do there can be for his good...