Word: tensions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While students say that the mix of Black and white students tends to create an added tension during discussions, they agree that the diversity also generates awareness of unexamined perspectives...
...Mart' s Sam Walton turns bargains into billions. -- The troubled temples ^ of thrift. -- Tension over smoking...
Take the transmission of electricity, for example. As much as 20% of the energy sent through high-tension lines is now lost in the form of heat generated as the current encounters resistance in the copper wire. If the electricity could be sent through superconducting cable, however, not a kilowatt-second of energy would be lost, thus saving the utilities, and presumably consumers, billions of dollars. Furthermore, at least in theory, all of a large city's electrical energy needs could be supplied through a handful of underground cables...
Beyond such charges, what really seemed at issue was a long-standing tension in U.S. academic circles between two groups -- physical, or "hard," scientists such as chemists, physicists and biologists, whose work traces cause-effect relationships and lends itself to mathematical proofs, and social, or "soft," scientists such as sociologists, psychologists and political scientists, whose work involves speculation about human motives and mixes subjective evaluation with fact. A political scientist, for example, cannot prove mathematically that Hitler's political regime was an inevitable consequence of Germany's post-World War I disarray, but he can make a pretty good case...
...overseas trade last year, could be damaged by unfair subsidies to a foreign competitor. The Administration is negotiating with the Europeans in an effort to persuade them to them to curb the Airbus subsidies. Said U.S. Trade Ambassador Michael Smith last week: "We want to defuse the tension...