Word: aligns
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...twice over in the divided, fragmented Knesset they elected to govern with Netanyahu. They gave no clear-cut mandate to any leaders, vesting large parliamentary powers in small parties whose priorities sometimes dovetail and sometimes contradict one another as well as the major parties with which they will align. So what will happen when narrow interests intersect with global diplomacy, when domestic divisions come into confrontation with international demands, when campaign promises clash? Instability, paralysis, even folly...
What is interesting about Santini's article is that she has fallen into that trap herself. While advocating the establishment of a forum solely for Puerto Rican students, she also says, "As Latinos we are divided among Chicanos, Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, etc., and as Puerto Ricans we align ourselves as either from the island or the 'mainland.'...By creating divisions we can only weaken ourselves." She indicates that division is something we must avoid. Doesn't Santini see that the establishment of yet another ethnic organization on the Harvard campus for yet another Latino group would only exacerbate this division...
Loury, who was a professor in Harvard's Afro-American Studies Department and at the Kennedy School of Government from 1982 to 1991, says ethnic minorities should not feel pressured to align themselves with any specific political group...
...bottom line is, align yourself with allies and have a plan," Friskopp said...
...delicate and risky maneuvers aimed at linking the two great ships. One careless burst of a thruster jet, and Mir's feathery solar panels could be destroyed; too forceful a bump from Atlantis, and either or both craft could be severely damaged. And if Gibson and Precourt couldn't align their 100-ton spacecraft to within 3 in. and 2 [degrees] of its assigned position before the final docking, the whole mission would have to be aborted...