Word: tensions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Yeltsin media coverage and festooned with Yeltsin banners, he held out the promise of cooperation, provided the Communists were offered significant posts in the government. Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin even hinted that the Communists might capture a few cabinet-level positions. "There is a general release of tension, and a feeling of hope after an unusually tense campaign season," says Quinn-Judge. The tension has not vanished from Yeltsin's own camp, however. Alexander Lebed, recruited by Yeltsin after the former soldier finished a strong third in the election's first round, is alienating some of Yeltsin's camp with...
...years ago. Poor Tita and Pedro--so in love, but kept apart by a cruel tradition which stipulates that Tita must remain single and serve her family. A solution seems to present itself when Pedro marries her older sister and Tita serves as their cook--the sexual tension is thicker than flan and a lot hotter...
...Southern community could be said to have somehow avoided racial strife, Kossuth, Mississippi, might have made the claim. Situated far north of the old plantations in the Delta, the tiny, oak-dotted hamlet (pop. 248) has historically enjoyed a lack of tension between white and black communities. In the 1940s and into the 1950s, children of both races played and ate together, and Kossuth achieved legal integration without the horrible spasms that wrenched most of the South. It was always a point of pride to Linda Lambert, the wife of Kossuth's mayor, that 109 years ago her ancestors donated...
...snobbery toward housewifery is also coming back to haunt me in my personal relationships. When I was younger and my father got home late from work, the tension would mount during his impending arrival until he walked sheepishly through the door to meet his fate--my mother's wrath at his disruption of the household routine. I generally took my father's side on these matters. After all, he was just doing the job (since in my mind, having a job meant going to an office) and she should just feel thankful that he worked so hard...
...Black Students Association (BSA), the tension between social and activist goals is exacerbated by lack of information about the club's limited resources, according to Chetanna I. Okasi '98, former BSA vice president...