Word: tensions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Despite mounting tension between Beijing and Taipei over the island's status, President Jiang Zemin immediately offered aid and condolences to the victims, and China's Red Cross began allocating funds and relief supplies for the island. The quake "hurt the hearts of people on the mainland as the Chinese people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait are as closely linked as flesh and blood," China's official news agency quoted Jiang as saying. But assistance from Beijing may turn out to be a political hot potato, because unlike Greece and Turkey, which have recently managed to overcome some...
NATO may have reached another eleventh-hour compromise with the Kosovo Liberation Army, but the underlying tension between them over Kosovo?s future is far from resolved. KLA leaders signed an agreement Monday authorizing the disbanding of the guerrilla movement ?- or more correctly, its transformation into a 5,000-member civil defense-style Kosovo Protection Corps. NATO had envisaged the corps as a National Guard equivalent to respond to civilian emergencies, but the KLA viewed it as the nucleus of a national army for the independent Kosovo to which they remain committed. Although NATO has restricted the Kosovo Corps...
...country's moratorium is another country's protectionism, and the U.S. is suspicious of Europe's actions. Tension between the U.S. and the E.U. was already running high this summer after Europe decided to continue a ban on hormone-raised U.S. beef and the U.S. hit back with a 100% tariff on some E.U. food exports. Coming in the midst of such a catfight, the GM ban looks like vengeance as much as prudence. What's more, if Europe is so worried about GM foods, why is it growing them? France produces its own small crop of GM corn...
...Florida, "and the best resources are the kids." A sense of security is reinforced when students feel they are part of the school and accepted by others. Like any other school, Grimsley has cliques and clusters of kids with shared interests, but students say that they exist without tension and that it is possible to bounce back and forth between groups. "It's a friendly environment," comments Tyler Brooks, who graduated last spring. Adds classmate Justin DeSimone: "We watch out for everyone...
...Buchanan is providing George W. Bush's campaign staff with some much-needed ? if probably short-lived ? dramatic tension. The political pundit and columnist, who recently dismissed the GOP as "a Xerox copy of the Democratic party," confirmed on Monday morning?s "Today" show that he is thinking of defecting from the GOP and seeking the Reform party?s nomination for president. Not that Buchanan should assume the welcome wagon will be wheeled out for him. If he does push to be the nominee of the party founded by Ross Perot ? he said he would make the "agonizing" decision...