Word: clashingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...startling as his departure. Only last July, one of Detroit's sharpest marketing men was abruptly ousted after 32 years at Ford, the last eight years as president. The precise reasons for Iacocca's downfall are still unclear, but at least one of the causes was a clash of wills with Chairman Henry Ford II. After his firing formally took effect in mid-October, Iacocca was relegated to a drab, linoleum-floored office in a spare-parts warehouse near Ford's headquarters in Dearborn, Mich...
Harvard is ranked sixth in the tourney behind top-seeded Connecticut, Dartmouth, UMass, UNH, and Springfield. The Crimson disposed of the Red Raiders, 2-0, earlier in the season, and if lightning should happen to strike twice, they would face the winner of the UMass-Cortland College clash on Saturday. "We have a chance, but you definitely have to plug us in as the underdog against UMass," says Field...
...theory of evolution--a practice forbidden by statute in his Bible-Belt state. The political orator William Jennings Bryan led the prosecution, while Clarence Darrow defended the teacher. Though the characters in Inherit the Wind are but thinly disguised, the playwrights have turned a sensationalistic trial into a lyrical clash between tradition and free thinking, with the two attorneys assuming the roles of opposing ideologies. This Thurs., Fri., and Sat., at the Loeb Ex. Tickets are free, but should be picked up at the Loeb one day before the performance...
...Washington last week, President Carter and Congress confronted each other in a complex clash over the federal income tax. Carter had proposed a slash of $17 billion, combined with a number of "reforms" aimed largely at business and middle-class taxpayers. The House rejected most of the reforms, and then the Sen ate went on a spree of special tax cutting for special groups. It voted to boost the capital gains tax exemption from 50% to 60%, to grant deductions for parents with children in private schools and colleges, and to preserve the legendary three-martini lunch. Carter denounced...
TEXAS. Again a personality clash between two conservative candidates. "I think the race is getting to be more fun all the time," says William Clements, the multimillionaire oil-drilling contractor who is running for Governor. Clements' idea of fun is to skewer his Democratic opponent, Texas Attorney General John Hill, whom he derides as a "claims lawyer and a career politician." When Hill accused Clements of resorting to "Nixon-style Watergate tricks," the Republican replied: "Hill seems a little sensitive to me." The main campaign issue is how to spend the state's $3 billion surplus; no matter which candidate...