Word: tensions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Still, in the words of a longtime staff member, there's a "palpable tension" in the CBS newsroom. From the executive suites to the cafeteria lines, the conversation at CBS News is about what to do with Connie and Dan. Dump her, keep him? Dump him, keep her? Dump them both and bring in Ed Bradley from 60 Minutes? The talk spilled over to Don Imus' nationally syndicated radio show two weeks ago, when professional curmudgeon Andy Rooney called the Rather-Chung teaming "the worst network-news mistake since ABC paired Barbara Walters with Harry Reasoner...
...Marine Corps has, perhaps, intensified this feeling in recent years. The cold realism of the militarist is a sensibility that I've been exposed to, and am comfortable with. It's present in my poems. But there's also the flushed believer of the Catholic. There's a tension between the two sensibilities, a zone where some of my poems are born...
After the Corporation's decision was announced last month, professors said the rejection of the Standing Committee's proposal to rescind the pension reduction would serve only to increase tension and decrease touch between the Faculty and the administration...
...year-old burden. "I am excited, relieved," says Phambili Gama, a black engineer in Johannesburg. "Psychologically we feel liberated, even if many economic changes are still to be realized." Beverley Dalton, a white Cape Town public relations executive, puts it more directly: "My world is blacker-and better. The tension has gone out of our lives." Now at national gatherings, A.N.C. leaders can be heard singing the Boers' beloved Die Stem (The Call), while at rugby matches, thick-necked Afrikaans players stand at attention for the black liberation and nationalist hymn Nkosi Sikelel i Afrika (God Bless Africa...
...there is a darker side to the Panthers' promising beginning. Tensions erupt in the wake of Betty Shabazz's visit when the Panthers discover that her Muslim escort had not loaded their guns. The message is clear and chilling: these guns are meant to be used. From then on, each encounter with the police is fraught with horrible tension; the police will not continue to tolerate this threat to their authority, while the Panthers are prepared to defend themselves and the Black community at the first sign of violence...