Word: clashingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...young aide to the President does not hesitate to quarrel with the Chief Executive when their views on the environment clash. "He's on pretty thin ice sometimes," says Jack Ford, 23, the ardent skier and mountain cumber. "But I guess I'm too critical...
...clash with Congress over the conduct of foreign policy, the Ford Administration has achieved one tentative advance and suffered one major setback...
...from certain that this generation of leaders, or perhaps the next, will lead the Soviet police state into social democracy. They are cynical, philistine power brokers whose world is measured in terms of economic statistics and Communist Party control. There is no sign of the oft-predicted clash between the party bureaucrats and the industrial and scientific technocrats. Although it is rotten at the edges-as provincial political scandals reveal-the party network retains a tenacious monopoly of authority...
...crisis-a potential nuclear confrontation between two superpowers that was ultimately resolved through delicate negotiations without the U.S. firing a single shot or losing more than a single man. J.F.K., unlike Ford, supported by every nation in the affected area and acting with caution and candor, avoided a direct clash, utilized the U.N. and other channels of communication, issued no ultimatum and authorized no acts of punishment or retaliation...
Terms like "community leader" and "neighborhood" have become emotional euphemisms that affect readers in a manner producing a good guy vs. bad guy image and plays down the fact that Harvard does have a legitimate interest that may be different from those of neighbors. When this clash of separate and distinct interest occurs our system of decision-making demands that through creative conflict and compromise difference be resolved. In the Kennedy Library fight the "community" used every avenue available (but not compromise) and won that battle. In this present argument concerning the attempt to divert the Red Line down...