Word: tug-of-war
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...This tug-of-war between generations over stuff and space is being played out by countless families across the country. Some believe it's merely a nuisance or a practical storage problem, but usually far more is at stake. Whether perceived as old junk or saved treasure, remnants of childhood carry a symbolic freight that transmutes over time as the "children" move into different phases of their lives...
...judging by Gore and Bush's tug-of-war on testing the other night, the candidates think the public support for high-stakes exams is unflagging. Despite Gore's repeated protests that he supports mandatory testing (he does, sort of, but not until 2004 and only in fourth, eighth and twelfth grades), Bush would go a step further, requiring states either to test kids every year from third through eighth grade or lose 5% of federal aid. At least on the testing issue, W's the toughest kid on the playground...
...last. Where technicians quibble is the exact future points of resistance on the upside and support on the downside. Is the pennant symmetrical, ascending or descending? Let them quibble. Suffice to note that as the range narrows, we get closer to declaring a winner in the bull-bear tug-of-war. A textbook reading, says Richard McCabe, chief market analyst at Merrill Lynch, is that by late August, the pattern will be broken, the Dow's new direction evident...
...this a sign of things to come in the Internet age? Two multimedia monoliths, Time Warner and Disney, are playing a high-stakes tug-of-war, not only putting the immediate fate of one TV network's programming at risk, but also raising questions about the shape of a totally web-based news and information future. After time ran out on their most recent usage agreement, Time Warner Cable and Disney arrived at an impasse Monday; Time Warner then called Disney's bluff, pulling the Mouse's ABC network from its programming roster. Time Warner Cable customers hoping to tune...
...those that tend toward an appreciation of serene majesty, passivity, mystery, solitude, pastoral virtues and a different kind of wildness. Both worlds are beautiful--city lamps on a winter night are no less attractive than a swaying kelp forest. The trouble is that nature usually loses in this tug-of-war, in part because it cannot compete in modern terms. Nature is undemocratic; in the wilds, wet or dry, the individual has no dignity. The strong eat the weak, and all one's humanistic ideals of equality and justice are drowned in acts of casual murder...