Word: clashing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...women's revolution has hardly been won without cost. The clash of children and career can force a painful choice. When Los Angeles Lawyer Kimberly Shaller, 29, had her second baby, her "leave of absence turned into retirement. I used to think I could have both, but now I feel sort of misled." Yet many women cannot afford to quit. "Wives have been working because their families need the money," says University of Wisconsin Business School Professor Dowell Myers. "Most women are still working pink collar. They're not in a career. They're in it because they need...
...Bush-Kemp duel in Michigan, as elsewhere, exemplifies the clash of cultures within the Republican Party. The Vice President's team consists primarily of mainstream moderates, country-club conservatives and most of the state party elite. Bush, who beat Ronald Reagan in Michigan's 1980 primary, never misses a chance to stress his ties to the popular President: "I was on the phone with the Situation Room this morning," he told supporters at several stops as he discussed the Soviet nuclear accident. Instead of propounding a personal vision for the future (dangerous for a Vice President at this stage...
...Crimson's depth proved invaluable, and not for the first time this season. Kristin Boss battled Princeton's Sue Palmentieri, but came up short in the first set, 5-7. Rebounding from the close clash, Boss routed Palmentieri...
...Clash of the Titans...
Some of the vigilantes are reportedly off-duty black policemen, and many blacks suspect that these groups are working with government security forces. The critics say that police, who regularly clash with leftist protesters, seldom appear when right-wing vigilantes are on the prowl and are slow to investigate charges against the groups. "There are right-wing elements of our community ready to be used by the authorities to blunt the edge of liberation forces," says Murphy Morobe, chief spokesman for the United Democratic Front, the national umbrella organization for more than 600 antiapartheid groups. "These vigilantes are no different...