Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...young man, Dr. Von Neumann became fascinated with the game of poker, and after 15 years of study, he evolved mathematical descriptions for the strategical conflict involved. A nonstrategical game (e.g., craps) can be scientifically described in familiar terms of probability. But a strategical game, like poker, where the player has a choice, and where winning or losing may depend on finding out what is in an opponent's mind and concealing what is in one's own, is far more difficult to cope with theoretically. Von Neumann gets at the heart of the strategic conflict through...
...Again many an American scientist is troubled because he finds himself dragged willy-nilly into a partisan conflict . . . The scientist discovers that he is no longer the austere and impartial figure of popular legend and his own desires. Instead he is a partisan in a relentless battle for power . . . The scientist who is engaged in atomic research for the Government has no stomach for such power struggles-but he cannot avoid becoming involved in them ... To protect his sanity he disavows moral responsibility for the consequences of his work. But does he convince himself...
Hour exams in freshman language courses were previously held at 4:30 p.m. Because of conflict with labs, athletics, and ROTC, however, the Committee on Educational Policy and the Faculty of the language department voted for early morning exams instead...
...such cases is that the donor's intentions, s expressed in the original agreement, is binding. The conflict here revolved mainly around the relation that the Arnold trustees intended between Harvard and the Arboretum. The gift might be considered an outright grant to the University with strings, attached, like a gift to Harvard for scholarship funds. This was, to oversimplify, a major line taken by Ropes-Gray. In such a case, the University is free to use the funds for whatever purpose it feels will further its purpose. The report added, however, that use of the Arboretum must also...
Clearly, today's United Nations is not what its founders had in mind in 1945. Instead of a true global organization, it today resembles a giant coalition of the free world against the Soviet Union and its satellites. Wartime U.S. Soviet harmony has turned to dissonant conflict. Envisioned as an agency for collective security, the UN is now, at least in its political functions, little more than a propaganda forum where each side bids for the weight of world opinion. The free world now seeks, and should continue seek, its security through a whole series of regional organization such...