Word: clashes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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During preparations for last spring's annual activist parade, military forces opened fire after a clash with students, Peralta said. One activist was killed and several others were injured...
Still, none of those teams have the class of Princeton or Dartmouth. Put your money on the Ivy title going to the winner of the Tiger-Big Green clash on November 21 in Princeton...
That sort of culture clash -- mountain man meets high society -- would have happened had Iceman ventured to meet his contemporaries on other continents. While the Alpine mountaineer and his people were foraging for berries and perhaps herding sheep or cattle, the Sumerians in what is now Iraq were already living in cities, drinking beer, keeping time with a primitive clock and transporting goods with their new invention: the wheel. Furthermore, they could record these deeds in the world's first written language. Along the Lower Nile, Egyptians were beginning to construct monumental buildings and decorate stone palettes and other objects...
These hypothetical cases make us uneasy. In addition to the clash between non-discrimination and freedom of association, we sense an invasion of one culture by another and a levelling of differences that decreases overall cultural diversity even as it seems to diversify group membership...
...Serbia's gains in Bosnia has stalled. "But we have continually underestimated the savagery of this war," says a Western diplomat. "Kosovo is the one unifying issue he's got." If economic sanctions and international isolation make Serbs restive about Milosevic's rule, he could find a Kosovo clash very useful to prevent a coup by more radical Serbs who would consider peace a betrayal. The U.S. has received reports in the past few weeks that Serbs are moving heavy guns to Kosovo and conducting military exercises there...