Word: tensions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...think there's always pretty consistently tension--like whether there is supposed to be a stereo in the main room," he says...
While the administration dealt with affirmativeaction, race relations among the student body wereanother occasional source of tension. Inextracurriculars and social situations, studentstended to segregate themselves along color lines...
...nothing of bodily fluids) are being exchanged like lira for euros. We approve whole-heartedly of this Bacchanalian excess and hope that each of the next four days and nights prove wilder than the one before. Nonetheless, it's impossible to wade through all this raucous merriment without sensing tension when well-wishers turn sullen and mutter under their breath as arch-enemies pass by, or when two friends stand aloof because one is moving to New York and the other to Sydney...
Rogers says that all of these elements contributed to an environment with much less tension between Cambridge residents and Harvard Students than there had been in the past...
...Yugoslavia, the bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade, which no Chinese citizen believes was accidental--all these add up to frightening confirmation that the U.S. is bent on "containing" China from achieving its rightful place in the world. The Cox report not only buttresses the public tilt toward tension and mutual distrust but also strengthens Beijing's own hard-liners as they call on China's leaders to get tough...