Word: clashes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...culture clash. Crown Prince Felipe of Spain, a mucho eligible bachelor, has been hanging out lately with an American lass, Giselle Howard--to the delight of Spanish paparazzi. One of them, Carlos Arriazu, was overeager, and is being charged with illegal wiretapping after he was caught in a sting operation while trying to tap Howard's phone. Arriazu says he didn't know wiretapping was illegal in America...
...Dhahran who say they have not been given equal access to evidence collected by the Saudis. The FBI also wants to transport forensic evidence to the U.S. for analysis and would like any suspects in the attack extradited for trial in the United States. "It is a continuing culture clash," says TIME's Dean Fischer. "The Saudis, like almost any other country would, insist on conducting the investigation themselves. They will be more forthcoming but in their own way and in their own time." While FBI Director Louis Freeh was in the kingdom last weekend attempting to sort out those...
...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...
...from operating in the autonomous areas under Arafat's control, encompassing most of the Gaza Strip and six West Bank cities, unless they are in hot pursuit of a fugitive. Returning Israeli troops to areas from which they have withdrawn, even for limited operations, would set them up to clash with the 30,000 men Arafat has under arms. If Palestinian forces were to stand by during such Israeli incursions, Arafat would lose enormous credibility with his people...
...appointed Bible-study center in Montreat that is the only brick-and-mortar institution Billy built to outlast him; and Franklin's insistence that the B.G.E.A. must stay in revivals rather than becoming just another religious foundation. But most likely what put off Franklin's opponents was simple culture clash. "You're dealing with people who have been in this organization a long time and remember the day I was born and might still view me as a kid compared to them," he says. His preferred wardrobe--cowboy boots, jeans, black snap-button shirt and leather jacket--could be seen...