Word: tug-of-war
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Even the last-minute preparations for the Pope's arrival in Nicaragua turned into a political tug-of-war between church hierarchy and state. Managua's Archbishop Miguel Obando y Brando, an outspoken critic of the regime, complained that the Sandinista government's plans to use publicly-owned transportation to shuttle Nicaraguans to sites along the papal route were an attempt to control who would be able to see John Paul. Some parish priests urged the faithful to ignore government timetables determining when they could leave for the Mass and instead to form their own religious processions...
Rather, the current tug-of-war has its origins in two historical differences between the departments: in their notions of an economics professor's proper role, and in their styles of filling tenure vacancies...
...Love Canal report was released the same week that the EPA set new standards for hazardous waste disposal on land, culminating six years of tug-of-war between corporations and citizens' groups. The Environmental Defense Fund, which has been sharply critical of the EPA, described the new guidelines as "a mixed bag"; the public interest group claimed that the regulations were adequate to control new dumps but not restrictive enough on the 2,000 hazardous sites already in existence. Nonetheless, the EPA's 500-page rulebook requires the monitoring of contamination levels near waste sites...
...real drama may be more offstage than on. Rumors have been circulating that Thus We Will Win was the object of an ideological tug-of-war in the Politburo. Party Theoretician Mikhail Suslov, a hard-liner who died last January, is believed to have done his best to block the production, while Brezhnev Protege Konstantin Chernenko apparently intervened to save the play. As if to dispel any notion that the leadership was divided in its feelings, virtually the entire top rung of the Politburo, including Brezhnev, showed up for a performance early last month. In what may be the start...
...most intriguing moon is Enceladus, which seems to be caught in a kind of gravitational tug-of-war. Pulled by nearby moons, its interior heats up, causing surface fissures and creating glacier-like ice flows that obliterate craters made earlier in its turbulent history...