Word: clashes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...free society demands a vigorous clash of ideas," Kerrigan says, explaining her lectures...
Salzman also effectively deals with the cultural differences between city and country life in China, the clash between Chinese and American life and the changing moral values of the Chinese people...
...occupation. "We became inventive, we learned new skills, we took out garbage," says one woman. Not surprisingly, the stay- at-homes resent those who fled. "When we saw Kuwaitis coming back with their Cartier watches and their FREE KUWAIT T shirts," added the woman, "we got angry." The clash of cultures has gradually diminished, but ill feelings linger...
Camden's destitution lends its prosperous past an evanescent air, so starkly does it clash with the town of today. Up until 1945 or so, this city was a monument to the gusto and grit of a nation laboring to create itself. Camden built everything from battleships to toilet seats, and people here claim you could find more industry per capita in these nine square miles than anywhere else in the world. This was the home of the Victor talking machine, Campbell's soup and the Esterbrook pen. In the cavernous shipyards, 35,000 men once toiled, hammering out eight...
...post that required him to devote himself to shaking down fat-cat contributors. In less than two years he raised $2 million -- but spent much of it on an outsize personal staff and other infrastructure at the party's chaotic office in San Francisco. That performance seems to clash with Brown's current lecturing. "Only last year he spearheaded an effort to throw out contribution limits. He was against many of the things he now says he's for," says Susan Estrich, Michael Dukakis' campaign manager in 1988. Concurs Republican political consultant Ed Rollins: "Right message. Wrong messenger...