Word: tensions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...about Cabot is that the reason most people don't want to go there--primarily the long walk--is actually not a problem. The shuttle bus runs regularly, and a 15-minute walk is a wonderful way to start and finish the day. Better than therapy to alleviate the tension and stress of college life, this time allows you to think calmly about whatever you like--no matter how hard you may try, you simply can't do your reading, write your paper or finish your problem set while trudging through the Common...
...good part of what I had to do was get rid of the opposition and tension so that it would no longer be viewed as a 'tenants versus landlords' system," Ford said...
...good, strong report which speaks to the issues and captures the essence of what Cambridge rent control needs," Myers said. "We must improve and strengthen the system by making it fairer to everybody, taking the tension and the anger out of the system...
Aziz left for Baghdad later that same day, and the tension-filled hours ticked into days as we waited for news from Iraq. On the evening of Feb. 20, we received a message from our embassy in Baghdad: Aziz had requested that a Soviet plane be sent to Iran to take him on to Moscow. The next day, in a clear indication that the talks would not be easy, Saddam Hussein gave an inconsistent and emotional speech over the radio in which he repeated the whole set of accusations and threats. Still, Aziz returned to Moscow around midnight...
...from the Pentagon's avoidance of macho rhetoric to the insistence by antiwar protesters that they supported U.S. troops, Americans of all sorts seemed determined to get it right this time. To the extent that any of Vietnam's bitter aftertaste was present, it was in the tension between the press and the military. And even that had dissipated to some extent by last week, when General H. Norman Schwarzkopf delivered his extraordinary briefing in Riyadh...