Word: tug-of-war
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...stellar screenplays including “Mission Impossible,” “The Firm,” and “Tequila Sunrise,” manages to send a poignant message about the struggle between personal identity, love, and societal acceptance. The romantic tug-of-war he creates between Bandini and Camilla is artfully executed—not through blunt, explicit lines, but through the carefully directed actions of his characters. The film’s settings seem almost drawn onto the screen, taken directly out of a picture book. Bandini’s apartment, in particular?...
...local Umatilla Indians and four other Columbia Basin tribes almost immediately claimed it as ancestral remains under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, demanding that the skeleton be reburied without the desecration of scientific study. A group of researchers sued, starting a legal tug-of-war and negotiations that ended only last summer, with the scientists getting their first extensive access to the bones. And now, for the first time, we know the results of that examination...
...LaMar, a security officer; and half brother Jovan, 14. Bush's relationship with his biological father, which he describes as a "a roller coaster," complicated his childhood. "It was tough with both sides of the family not getting along too well," he says. "[I was] caught in a tug-of-war." Bush calls LaMar his father (during his Heisman acceptance speech, Bush broke down while thanking him). Luckily, football offered plenty of solace. Bush ran for eight touchdowns in his second Pop Warner game...
...Berman, the decision to spend more time in Europe is the latest pull in a personal tug-of-war between finance and foreign language...
Since the internet was born, there has been a tug-of-war between aggregating information and finding ways to navigate through it. Two of the great navigation milestones were the Web browser and the search engine. Now, with the galloping growth of blogs (some 80,000 new blogs are created every day, according to blog search engine Technorati) and the proliferation of social-network sites, a growing group of companies is trying to figure out how to turn the cacophony of personalized information into usable form - and viable businesses. They call it the Shared, Trust or Referral Economy...