Word: bickering
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...Continent is mired in political and economic difficulties for which no solution is in sight. Nearly three decades after its birth, the European Community is far from being the incipient United States of Europe that its founders dreamed of. Instead, it is a loose grouping of countries that bicker interminably over farm budgets and milk prices, customs duties and value-added taxes. Economic growth for Western Europe will average only about 2.5% this year, or just half the U.S. rate. Europeans who in the mid-'70s looked on the U.S. as a nation weakened by Viet Nam, Watergate...
While scientists may bicker over who was first to discover the virus, the important news is that a breakthrough has finally been made in understanding the deadly AIDS epidemic. What matters, says Immunologist Allan Goldstein of George Washington University, "is that we now know the face of the enemy...
...first mistake was to bicker with Mondale. Taken aback by Mondale's onslaught, Hart was defensive and churlish. Too late, he tried to clamber back on the highroad. "I have really tried very hard not to attack anyone in this race," he insisted in a local television debate two days before the primary. "Voters are fed up with this penny ante, picky business." But he could not restrain himself and fell to quibbling with Mondale over who had started the negative campaigning. Chastened by the New York landslide, Hart grimly announced, "If New York proved anything, it was that...
...that could be filled either by Communist extremists or by the military. "If we do not solve this problem through the ballot," warns Jaime Cardinal Sin, the outspoken Archbishop of Manila, "I'm just too afraid that we might solve it through violence." As the factions continue to bicker and dither, many potential supporters may fall away...
...search for faults, contradicting the Government and one another in hasty judgments. The Congress is 535 shattered pieces of political authority, most of whom are frightened and bewildered, reverting to the safe ground of doubt and complaint. The presidential candidates scrutinize and wait, ready to pounce. White House aides bicker among themselves, tempers superheated, judgment clouded by fatigue. Leaks and counterleaks fill the air. The choices for action in both places are not between good and bad, but between terrible and dreadful...