Word: tensions
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...American citizen, Rodriguez, 23, returned to Cuba for the first time last December. He was shocked by the smallness of the house he thought so large as a child, and by the simplicity of Cuban life, as well as by its tension and poverty. Many of his boyhood friends confided that "as soon as they got the chance they'd be out of there." He believes them: two cousins have arrived in the U.S. by raft in the past five years...
Failure by baseball owners to make a $7.8 million payment to the players' pension fund heightened tension between labor and management as baseball's Aug. 12 strike date neared...
...reactor -- the kind that doesn't produce wastes that can be used in nuclear weapons -- if the North proved it was not making atomic arms. Those are the rough terms of the agreement that North Korean and U.S. negotiators reached Saturday before adjourning talks till September. A point of tension: The North, which hasn't responded to the overture, rejected a Southern proposal for Red Cross talks on reuniting 10 million family members separated since the Korean...
True, the playing in the Schumann was emotionally engaging, but I found the recording in its entirety to be remarkably free of real musical tension. The tempi were upright, and as a result, there was little momentum in either the forward or reverse directions. The individual playing was impressive, but I didn't find myself entirely convinced by the final product. By no means was I expecting tear-jerking renditions, but I did expect a recording that was more engaging than this...
...hollow. The U.S. Coast Guard may not be so convinced: Guard vessels sighted three more boats leaving Cuba today after picking up 230 frightened Cuban refugees over the weekend. The recent exodus was spurred by unrest in Havana Friday. TIME Miami bureau chief Cathy Booth says Castro, frustrated by tension during one of the Cuban economy's worst months, may let the malcontents go. In Miami, she adds, Cuban exiles went on the radio to urge their island brethren to stay put. "They don't want another Mariel," Booth says of the 1980 incident in which 125,000 Cubans fled...