Word: tensions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...There is a tension between teaching and research, but to resolve it by saying, 'focus only on teaching' is not a solution," according to David A. Riesman '31, Ford Foundation professor of social sciences emeritus, "because then faculty members members only get older, and not wiser...
...dispersal of women through the river houses had left women on campus without a sense of community. Eight years later, students circulated a petition that said "there can be no doubt that women need a place of their own, a supportive environment where women can escape the peculiar tension which pervades academic and social life at Harvard/Radcliffe...
...bullying India? That issue has provoked rising tension between the two countries since last month, when the U.S. singled out India as the sole target on a hit list of unfair trading partners. The U.S. trade deficit with India last year was only $851 million, or 2% of the imbalance between the U.S. and Japan. But Japan and Brazil, the two other countries cited last year along with India on the same hit list, were removed this year as a reward for entering into talks with the U.S. to lower some trade barriers. India, however, has refused to negotiate...
Whatever the motive for the killing, tension mounted after a series of protest marches through Bensonhurt led by one of the city's most flamboyant rabble-rousers, the Rev. Al Sharpton. Inflammatory press coverage added to the heat. When the first two Bensonhurst youths charged with the killing went on trial separately in state supreme court on April 16, apprehension gripped the city. Not-guilty verdicts, blustered Sharpton, would be "telling us to burn the town down...
...tension evaporated, and the librarians tucked into lunch, with wine. Healy, 67, is a reassuring presence, a tall man with a slight, accommodating stoop, ruddy coloring and blunt features. In mufti -- which he always wears at the library -- he could pass for a football coach or, with more pronounced sartorial accents, an aging sportswriter. He can discuss old movies or baseball or Virgil. He is, in fact, wildly articulate but manages to wear that gaudy mantle easily, without any of William F. Buckley Jr.'s arcane showboating...