Word: clashingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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HOWEVER much the Afro debate manifests itself as a clash of personalities, the political and academic issues that hinge upon the outcome remain more important. Although racial considerations are rarely mentioned in the current Faculty discussions of the Department the fact remains that the Faculty's decisions when it restructures Afro will have a profound effect on the undergraduate careers of the majority of Harvard's black students...
...Riggs-King matches, has brought suit against Tandem for allegedly not giving him "due attention." A more substantive suit has been filed by CBS, which presented the Riggs-Court match and insists that it was not given sufficient time to pick up its option for the upcoming clash. A hearing is scheduled for this week, but no one expects court action to stop the show...
...Bloody Clash. Indira then warned her countrymen that military victories do not come cheap. She was right. The costs and dislocations of war have combined with drought to produce near famine, water shortages, power failures, price increases, labor strife, unemployment and street crime. Power failures caused by drought and labor sabotage of power plants have left New Delhi, the nation's capital, blacked out or browned out three times in as many months and many factories unable to operate. Unemployment is hard to pinpoint statistically in a land of perpetual underemployment (estimated at 24%). The jobless are now numbered...
Inflation is rampant. Retail prices have soared 24% in twelve months. In Uttar Pradesh state, 20,000 policemen struck in May for better wages and conditions, leading to an ugly and bloody clash with the army in which 34 men were killed. Government officials from the highest to the lowest local levels have become unashamedly corrupt. It now takes a bribe to get a child into school, to get a milk card, even to get a long-distance railway ticket, let alone any of the innumerable licenses that India's pullulating bureaucracy demands. One capital resident said last week...
...Ehrlichman testimony wound up in a fascinating clash between Weicker and the witness over Ehrlichman's contention that the political investigations conducted by Anthony Ulasewicz, a former New York City cop who had been given secret assignments for a time by Ehrlichman, were proper. Ulasewicz has testified that his gumshoe chores amounted to "dealing in allegations of dirt"-the sexual activities, drinking habits and domestic problems of candidates. Ehrlichman, a teetotaling Christian Scientist, launched into an animated defense of the relevance of such personal habits to politics...