Word: clashed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...worried that Bosnia will be followed by other interventions. During the cold war the U.S. was involved, willy-nilly, in every conflict in the world. But at the same time Washington had to be cautious about where it sent troops for fear of stumbling into a direct clash with the Soviet Union, one that could escalate to nuclear war. Now the opportunities for intervention are almost endless and carry little fear of Armageddon...
...kind of hearty, hybrid culture and provoking new ways of thought and new avenues to genius. But for every such cultural synergy there are 10 cases--from the Balkans to the former Soviet Union, from Africa to Asia and now to North America--of cultural explosion, where the clash of ethnicities yields weakness, conflict, division, even war. Indeed, the bitterness of French Canada's drive to amputate its century-old confederation with English Canada tells us much about the unexamined belief in the strength and beauty of the multicultural mosaic...
...really painful and saddening that Israeli society has reached the point where a Jew would kill another Jew because of a clash in ideology," Tiven said...
...mistake to dismiss him as a just another extremist crackpot. The forces powering the Nye County rebellion are those resculpting the political and social landscape of America at large. They just happened to have converged with their greatest intensity in the West, where private and public interests clash directly and daily, typically over such visceral issues as land and water. The angry rebels range from ranchers fed up with bureaucrats' telling them when and where to graze their cattle to developers denied crucial water rights. "We're talking about things that go right down to the heart," says Nebraska Governor...
...rock performed by people who, through their raw sound and outrageous attire, were bent on making adults feel like out-of-touch geeks. The seminal British punk band the Sex Pistols mocked the monarchy and led fans in nihilistic chants of "No future," while their countrymen and contemporaries the Clash paid tribute in their music to the Sandinista rebels...