In the tense environment, television crews had been attacked and accused of creating anti-Egyptian propaganda.
"It's a tense environment right now," said Glenn Schorr, an analyst with the investment bank Nomura.
"In order to avoid escalation all must refrain from inflammatory statements and retaliatory action that can only further exacerbate an already tense environment," he said.
The revision, in an already tense environment, inspired suspicions that the keepers of the status quo were somehow manipulating the numbers.
And in the tense environment before the Olympics, which China fears could invite uncontrollable protests or blemish its international image, the climate has become noticeably more restrictive.
He added that even in the current tense environment, he did not believe the airlines would break out of their financial competition to enhance security.
Every new Attorney General brings in his own team, but the scorn that Ashcroft's aides feel for "the bureaucracy" — the career attorneys and employees — has helped to create a tense environment within the Justice building.
MPs were evacuated in service vehicles after heavy gendarme reinforcements broke up the crowds at 3 am.Tzvetlin Yovchev, the interior minister, claimed that "my colleagues behaved perfectly and remained calm in a highly tense environment".
Far from the tense environment that existed in Arthur's final days during the shambolic India tour, with players constricted by bureaucratic requirements and disillusioned by erratic selections, Lehmann has released the shackles binding his charges.
But in a tense environment where suspicion and paranoia are sometimes indistinguishable, it can be hard to separate the business of daily life from the business of coping and watching over your shoulder.
Van Gundy had preached running this season, but his controlling coaching style -- he called many of the plays from the sideline -- and the tense environment it created is not conducive to playing an up-tempo game.
