Word: clashing
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...cooking the books.' " Mattel paid shareholders $122 million to settle the suit. O'Leary and Perik settled as well. O'Leary did not return multiple calls for comment. In the past, O'Leary has blamed the problems at the Learning Company on the technology meltdown and a culture clash between the management of his company and Mattel...
...past several years, Britain's Department of Health has spent about $200 million a year on hiring international management-consultant firms, hoping to find ways to counter rising health-care costs associated with an aging population, expensive new medical treatments and rising patient expectations. The result is often a clash of cultures. A former analyst at A.T. Kearney, who spoke to TIME on condition of anonymity because of a nondisclosure clause in his contract, recounted the reaction of senior British health officials when he suggested that they adjust for increases in pharmaceutical costs by upping the fee patients...
...doesn’t proselytize. Unlike previous Iraq War films like “Stop-Loss,” which patronizes viewers with takeaways they already agree with, “Hurt Locker” disguises its message with subtlety, focusing on the difficult lives of soldiers and culture clash rather than anything as distant as politics or presidents. Renner’s portrayal of a bomb-diffusing, cigarette-smoking madman is perhaps the best male performance of 2009. The rest of his team includes characters played by Anthonie Mackie and Brian Geraghty, the latter essentially reprising his deer...
...that route with a bill as big and complicated as health-care reform would take the Senate Democrats into dark, uncharted parliamentary territory. Among the options they are considering are cutting the bill into pieces and ultimately passing a smaller and less ambitious measure. That, however, sets up a clash with the more liberal House...
...militias are focused on drug-trafficking. Colombian police put the number of new armed groups at eight. But the New Rainbow Foundation, a Colombian NGO that investigates the war, puts the number at 82 and says they have between 4,000 and 10,000 fighters. The militias often clash with guerrillas and with each other for control of land that can be used for growing coca - the raw material for cocaine - or for smuggling narcotics. (See pictures from Colombia's drug underworld...