Word: tensioning
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...seemed like a small issue to me," she says, "but it does show some tension...
Roselia Jaquerano, who came to the U.S. from El Salvador 15 years ago and owns a boutique in East Cambridge, says that she has not found the tension to be quite so subtle...
...this verdict for some time. "People are in a state of shock and fury that these police officers could fire 41 shots at Diallo and walk away," says White. "The fact that there were four black women on the jury may serve to relieve at least some of the tension in the black community...
This is not to imply that the values of society at large map neatly onto those of the armed services. Just try telling your drill sergeant you intend to uphold Jeffersonian principles of individualism throughout Hell Week. There is a tension here--a mutual tugging at the boundaries between civil right and military imperative. But the latter is definitely constrained by the former...
...programs would be immediately affected, as they are already subject to federal scrutiny). The plan seeks to safeguard patients against the ill effects of everything from doctors' notoriously illegible handwriting to missteps in everyday procedures. The most controversial aspect of full disclosure of medical mistakes has always been the tension between a patient's right to know and a health care provider's right to privacy. Under the new guidelines, hospital errors would be made public, but the identity of doctors and other hospital workers would be kept confidential - a compromise opposed by the American Medical Association and American Hospital...