Word: frictioned
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Mauroy's only real moment of friction with Mitterrand came in 1979. Impatient with the Socialists' slowness in breaking the alliance with the Communists, Mauroy, by then the mayor of Lille, briefly promoted Michel Rocard as the party's next presidential nominee. But when Mitterrand announced he would run again, Mauroy loyally swung back into line...
...said there was a time conflict between his practice and his teaching position, citing the occasional friction between professors and administrators on the matter, but added that students prefer to be taught by professors eminent and active in architecture...
...PROBLEM, surprisingly, is not friction: with undergraduates. When news of Brustein's impending arrival at Harvard first leaked out two years ago, some students heard reports of Brustein's insensitivity to undergraduate needs at Yale, and feared a repeat performance. The Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club opposed his appointment. But the HRDC board members missed the point: Brustein the theater director and English professor at Harvard would naturally feel more responsibility towards undergraduates than Brustein the graduate dean at Yale. So far, in his new post. Brustein has apparently assured most of the student theater community that he has an open...
...other university-based theaters like it are to exorcize this source of friction before it becomes hardened and bitter, they will have to take the lead in proving to their skeptical audiences that, far from strangling plays with directorial nooses, they are giving classics new life and strength from within. They can do this in ways the ART has already begun to try: by meeting critics in public, by explaining intentions in program notes and in-house publications, by accepting outside criticism and suggestions when they're justified, and by being patient...
...great wheel in 2001: A Space Odyssey, could serve as a launch pad for journeys far beyond the earth, maybe to Mars. Interplanetary spacecraft assembled in earth orbit could be made of much lighter and less costly materials since they would not have to survive the stresses and friction of travel through the earth's atmosphere...