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University lawyers argued that releasing the proposal would invite “every member of the entire public to express each one’s views on every settlement” for an “uncontrollable public fray” around negotiations.

Rather than waiting until morning, when cooler heads may prevail, investors could jump into the fray right away.

But their friendship frays when the governor, seeking political leverage, tasks his protégé with finding dirt on Jack’s childhood idol, Judge Montague Irwin.

Sliwa jumped into the fray, taking swipes at the other two candidates over their records in government.

And there is a recurring sense of a declining sense of community: a sense that the ties that have long bound the town, the area together, are perhaps continuing to fray.