Word: tensions
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...John F. Kennedy School of Government and in Harvard's department of Afro-American studies. That means "Afro-Am," heretofore best known for Gates' esoteric literary theories and Cornel West's philosophical fulminations on race, will be a strong voice in public debates over poverty and racial tension. During Wilson's 24 years at Chicago, his research on how worldwide economic changes combined with the residual effects of discrimination to produce the black underclass has shaped the view of most experts in the field. Now, at 60, he believes he can combat what he considers a disastrous rightward swing...
Forbes would, however, use diplomatic linkage in the latest tension over China's sale of nuclear technology to Pakistan. "Clinton fears harming U.S.-China trade by sanctioning Beijing for that," he says. "I'd explicitly couple Pakistan with Taiwan. If China behaves on Taiwan, I'd let them off the hook on Pakistan and deal with the proliferation questions later...
...obvious that tuition rate increases much higher than inflation could not continue in perpetuum," he wrote. "This tension results in significant uncertainty in our long-range financial plans...
...effective, Core reform should mediate the tension between what we think we want and what Harvard thinks is good for us. I do not think that the review committee has reached a complete synthesis of this yet, but may very well come up with something feasible by the end of the review process in the 1996-97 academic year...
...Penn matchup is useful, Ben-Shachar said, "to get rid of nerves and tension" that have been mounting in anticipation of the big match...