Word: tensions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...thyroid gland controls the body's basal metabolic rate--the rate at which it consumes energy while at rest. When the thyroid hormone is produced in excess, the body consumes energy faster than it can be supplied. The result is a haywire combination of anxiety, tension and fatigue. The body wants to go, go, go--and it does, even when it isn't going anywhere. This type of things can wear you out, even if you haven't been exerting yourself...
Numerous audience members said they detected ahigh level of tension in the room during andimmediately following Ashrawi's presentation...
Some of the tension may have been triggered bya shortage of space, which forced HarvardUniversity Police officers to deny latecomersaccess to the room...
...addition to the growing Democrat-Republican tension in the race, there is also friction between incumbent Thompson and other candidates...
...track the "developing" friendship of Nina and George. (They go to amusement parks. They watch videos together in makeshift slumber parties. And, yes, they go dancing.) The complication, of course, is Nina's boyfriend, Vince (John Pankow), an outspoken civil liberties lawyer who naturally resents George's intrusion. Tension builds until the bomb explodes: Nina announces her pregnancy and her desire to raise the baby with George instead of Vince...