The most obvious is the constant clash of egos, personalities and agendas among the leaders, particularly between Mr. Pataki and Mr. Silver.
"I would say that what is creating conditions of delay in regaining trust of markets and investors is the constant clash and disagreements between the IMF and European institutions," he told reporters in a traditional no-holds-barred exchange.
Underlying the humor is an incisive investigation of the ways cultural forces shape private lives: the constant clash between Emily and her children has as much to do with generational differences as with questions of temperament and personal inclination.
This constant clash over the figures highlights three things.
It was wired, confused and confusing, with constant clashes around race, class, gender and politics, idealism and ideology.
Constant clashes, however, developed between the New Jersey and the New York proprietors over the precise nature of the New Jersey grant.
The constant clashing stiffens and thins the tissues, leading to the roughened tone of older singers' voices — and, later, to the creaky voices of the elderly.
In late 1967, Mr. Cole resigned, frustrated by constant clashes with the station's owners and less than thrilled by the psychedelic music coming to the fore.
At Rachel's Tomb in Bethlehem, another Jewish holy site in a Palestinian-ruled West Bank town that has also been the scene of constant clashes, the Israeli Army reported that four soldiers had been injured in fighting with rioters there today.
On Thursday, as Mr. Kassis was being interviewed, the Israeli border police blockaded the road to Bethlehem from Jerusalem in an attempt to keep Orthodox Jews away from Rachel's Tomb, a religious site at the town's entrance that is the scene of constant clashes with Palestinian rioters.
But another election loser, the former Democratic Councilman Richard Fredette, who didn't even gain his party's re-nomination after constant clashes with party leaders during the past two years and then lost a primary challenge, said he is also "strongly leaning toward running for mayor" and expects to set up an exploratory committee by January.
