Word: high tension
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...come by, i.e., one seeks evidence that a drug regularly causes a certain effect. I feel reasonably sure that neither of those evidentiary elements are available in the cases at issue, just as they are unavailable in other cases we read about every day--the Agent Orange case, the high-tension electric wire case, the artificial sweetener case, etc. In all, we are left in limbo as we seek to reach firm conclusions-and in the end the final judges of what took place are lawyers, journalists and the putative victims themselves...
...monitor terror crises overseas that is crammed with computers and large screens displaying satellite photos. The carpet still had burn marks from the time an excited Tenet dropped his cigar upon learning that CIA officers had apprehended Mir Amal Kasi, who had murdered two agency employees outside Langley. Tension was high as early casualty figures flowed in from Africa. Almost immediately, the CIA officers had a good idea who triggered the explosions at Nairobi and Dar es Salaam. The bin Laden cell. The covert operation the year before apparently had not cleaned out that nest of terrorists...
...through all the typical themes: lost love, the open road, drug addiction and self-glorification. What makes the lyrics of the album exceptional is the constant tension Doughty and Co. create between the words and the music. "Pensacola," perhaps the most beautiful song on the album, is an excellent example of Soul Coughing's elegant alliance between sound and language. The song opens with an underwater, ambient effect of waves of bass and high synth strings. Doughty enters with a uncharacteristically melancholy and amazingly seductive voice to sing about suffocating love. As the line "like waves in which you drown...
...every day, I read the record at five police stations in Northern Westchester. The activity has unveiled my suburban homeland. The pretty little towns with tree-lined streets and expensive properties are a mask for crime and tension. Just this past weekend, one group of teens in picturesque Cross River, N.Y., violently beat a boy from a rival high school...
...Tension was high and the weather conditions were abominable, but Harvard played with the will that a team needs in order to contend for a national championship. A national title, merely an afterthought at the start of Harvard's season, was what Harvard was pursuing now. And in the 142nd minute of play, the Crimson took one more step toward attaining that goal...