Word: tensions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Tension Amid Tolerance...
Although the school's curriculum and extracurriculars foster a community of tolerance, there is also an atmosphere of tension...
Meanwhile, several incidents targeted at women's, Jewish and gay and lesbian groups reveal another kind of tension. During the 1987-'88 academic year, individual members of the gay and lesbian community received unsigned hate mail...
...Willie called attention to the tension between a strict standard of merit for hiring decisions and the value of diversity which should be an important goal of a university or college...
...scuffle, which made headlines, nonetheless heightened tension in the city. For a few days people stood along the "Harvard-Cambridge border"--a hazy line along Mass. Ave near Harvard Square--in anticipation of further skirmishes...