Under control, though it took tense work, she was lucid, kind and funny.
The long hours couriers must work — identified as a chronic problem by the inspector general — contribute to poor morale and a tense work environment.
The correlation is a fact that activists haven't been shy about highlighting -- if Walmart and other low-wage workers don't have the right to organize, they'll never escape the bottom-barrel pay or tense work environment that makes them nervous to speak up, activists say.
Months after ending a sometimes tense working relationship, Sarah Palin and the Fox News Channel are back together.
ATLANTA — For most of her first six months in office, Gov. Nikki R. Haley of South Carolina managed to keep a congenial, if tense, working relationship with the Legislature.
The future tense works in the same way.A fierce debate exists in linguistics between those, such as Noam Chomsky, who think that all languages function roughly the same way in the brain and those who do not.
"It sounds idyllic," says Miller, "but we tore each other apart, got into tremendous scraps about everything, and it was very tense working with a producer for the first time.
General Schoomaker, who retired from the Army in 2000, was asked several times about reports that Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld had a tense working relationship with Gen. Eric K. Shinseki, the previous Army chief.
The Nigeria Football Federation's tense working relationship with coach Stephen Keshi looks set to continue.
Lack of alignment can result in data that is never used for management, or in tense working relationships.
I preferred "Tombeau de Messiaen" (1994), the tighter, tenser work by Mr. Harvey for solo piano and recorded sounds that the pianist Cory Smythe played at "For the Birds," Sunday afternoon's concert at the Park Avenue Armory.
