Word: tensioning
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...says the time for negotiation has passed. Explaining his decision to join Mugabe's government, the former mine worker compared the nation's humanitarian crisis to a bus hanging over a cliff: "If you allow it to tip over, we will all tip with it." (See pictures of political tension in Zimbabwe...
...stature and the watchful eye he keeps over them. Just over a month ago, after Tricky had approached residents of the nearby Riquet housing project with a call for musicians, Ndiaye showed up at the studio followed by a wary band of nearly 20 friends. Tricky recalls the initial tension. "They were trying to suss me out," he says. "But once Amadou went on the mike, we were off and running...
...medicine at UCI College of Medicine in Irvine, Calif. "Because IVF is largely not covered by insurance in most states, if a couple mortgages their home to have a single cycle, it's understandable that they'd want to maximize their opportunities for a successful outcome. There is a tension in the field between what the patients' wishes are and what the clinical guidelines suggest...
...cabal of electronic-noise anarchists into fully-fledged experimental-pop pioneers. The subject matter of their songs tended usually (and, in light of lyrical choice, thankfully) toward the uncertain, but generally shared a thematic convergence of childlike awe, exuberance, and ecstatic joy propelled by a fascination with dynamic tension that can only rightly be called explosive.Then in 2007, the nascent cult around the band grew exponentially—and rightly so—for two reasons. The first came in March, when Lennox released his third solo album, the sublime, sample-bending “Person Pitch...
...Sejong Institute, a South Korean think tank. "North Korea idolizes a single leader. Kim Jong Il's bad health and leaflets being sent by anti-North Korea NGOs in the South to the North Korean people are undermining the solidity of the ruling system." Song says heightened tension between the two Koreas helps to strengthen "the internal solidarity of [Kim Jong Il's] regime." (See the doctored pictures of Kim Jong Il after his reported illness...