Word: tensions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...problem with The Laughing Sutra arises not from the story, but from the writing. Salzman writes with a juvenile style but discusses adult topics. While this style attracts a younger, Adventure-hungry audience, the book's message demands a more sophisticated reading. This tension will keep the novel from finding an audience that can fully appreciate...
...stroke of a pen. The army, which bears responsibility for the majority of wartime human-rights abuses, and the F.M.L.N., which prolonged the fighting during the lengthy peace talks, cannot abandon innate suspicions of each other. As a result, though Salvadorans will be technically at peace, they will face tension and fear, if not outright hostility, for the foreseeable future...
...executed with the finesse of a Marine drill instructor, have left the atmosphere at many firms thick with hostility. "I feel like I'm walking along a geological fault line within U.S. companies," says Robert Rosen, author of a recent book, The Healthy Company. "There is more frustration and tension between employers and their employees than I've ever seen. Mutual cynicism and mistrust seem to be at an all-time high...
With the libraries packed and tension running high, students today near the halfway point of the first week of exams...
...Oval Office flooded with December sunshine, and for 30 minutes he is remembering when he played the ultimate chess game -- Desert Storm -- and won brilliantly. The afterglow of that triumph has faded now, but not his granite conviction that what he did was right. Back a year, the tension was real and he talked more at night with Barbara and hugged his grandchildren with more feeling as he pondered two of his huge problems: Saddam Hussein and the U.S. Congress...