Word: tensions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...interested in portraying them as grasping and money mad, in a Marxist gloss on the plight of the worker. They are so coarse and reprehensible -- more animalistic when eating than the bug in the back bedroom , -- that there is no point of connection for the audience, certainly no creative tension between expecting the family to take a noble course and knowing why it succumbs to a selfish...
Harvard geneticist Philip Leder cites many common diseases -- hyper-tension, allergies, diabetes, heart disease, mental illness and some (perhaps all) cancers -- that have a genetic component. Unlike Huntington's and Tay-Sachs diseases, which are caused by a single defective gene, many of these disorders have their roots in several errant genes and would require genetic therapy far more sophisticated than any now even being contemplated. Still, says Leder, "in the end, genetic mapping is going to have its greatest impact on these major diseases...
...answer, deftly treated, is that both his parents had been, for a short period, party members. Therein lies the main source of tension throughout the book: grappling with his father's wish that he not reveal their secret. "You're going to prove McCarthy right, because all he was saying was that the system was loaded with Communists," says his father. "And he was right...
...opposition. I give full support to the general direction of perestroika, to the country's foreign policy and so on. But I have my own views on matters of political tactics that differ slightly from , the position of the official leadership. In this respect, there is a certain tension in our relationship, but I insist on certain limits...
Months of deepening tension between its bitterly divided national republics and ethnic groups have brought Yugoslavia dangerously close to civil war. In the autonomous province of Kosovo, striking ethnic Albanian lead and zinc miners protesting a strident campaign by Serbians to tighten their grip touched off a wave of demonstrations. Tens of thousands of ethnic Albanians joined the strike, forcing the resignations of provincial Communist Party boss Rahman Morina and other officials considered to be puppets of Serbia...