Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lawyers pointed out that "arguing against these rights [free speech, the right of rank-and-file union members to bring court action against their leaders, etc.] is like arguing in favor of sin." But the bill of rights was in fact "an invitation to litigation, a fertile source of conflict between federal and state law, an improper interference . . . with legitimate union activities, and a threat of probably unconstitutional criminal sanctions." On that basis, the council directed A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany to lay the organization's objections before the House Education and Labor Committee next week. Even...
...president and former president of the Harvard Liberal Union last night denied any conflict between College rules for undergraduate organizations, and the ADA constitution, which applies...
...hope a helpful talk." Then he offered an unintentional assist to the Red propagandists by conceding that, while in Lhasa, the Dalai Lama had indeed written "friendly" letters to the Red commandant because he 1) was passing through difficult and troubled times, and 2) was trying to avoid open conflict with Peking...
...ever underwent pigboat training: all submariners are volunteers, and not every volunteer becomes a submariner. So scrupulous is the selection process that less than 1% leave the service after winning coveted dolphins. As a result, submariners are unusually bright and well-motivated men, "rarely in conflict with authority or each other...
...possible between East and West, according to Munoz. He pointed out that "economic rivalry in a world of great productivity cannot be the same as economic rivalry in a world of scarcity," and there is now no reason why both blocs can not exist together. Already the conflict on the idealogical front has shifted, he noted, so that the West no longer stresses the necessity of private initiative and profit but now asserts that "whatever is achieved economically is at the expense of freedom...