Word: clashing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cushy chairs completed a picture of serenity. For inmates and their watchers alike, it was a far cry from the dank, forbidding, Victorian-style Suffolk County House of Correction they had left behind on the banks of Boston Harbor. Gone were the five tiers of cages, the earsplitting clash of steel against steel as hundreds of cell doors slammed shut in unison; gone was the cavernous, clattering mess hall, whose ambiance was an invitation to riot. Sheriff Rufo and Boston had just bought into the new architecture of justice...
...should flash. There is, alas, nothing simple about governing today's America; there is nothing easy about solving pressing problems when the government is nearly $4 trillion in debt; world-class experts are no substitute for presidential leadership; and electronic town meetings are no quick fix to replace the clash of competing interests that is the stuff of politics. The issue is not sincerity; Perot believes what he says. Rather the question before the nation in the months ahead is whether this buoyant billionaire's self-confidence is justified -- or dangerous...
...ethnic Pashtun and Islamic fundamentalist, had demanded that the rump government in Kabul surrender to him so that a strictly religious Muslim regime could be installed. Now both mujahedin forces are in the center of the city, including the grounds of the presidential palace, where even a small clash could spark another round of civil...
...There clearly have been some incidents where Blacks have been, I believe, insensitively treated. And there are other incidents where they certainly perceive they have been, and where it's clear that there is a clash of perceptions," Rudenstine said. "The total of both means that their concerns are real, and their sense of relationship to the life of the University is just very exacerbated at this point...
...room except the judge. The young Harvard student breezed into the courtroom with an air of confidence and annoyance. Dressed in a dapper gray suit and shiny shoes, he approached the judge directly. The student stood straight, eyes focused on the bench, unwavering the in his head-to-head clash with the law. He was charged with as saluting a Cambridge police officer...