Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with a sensible plan for promoting better scheduling of college events. With accurate calendar information, the Key aims to help groups plan their occasions more intelligently. Although certain organizations, because of their different interest areas, do not compete with each other when holding activities on the same day, some conflict is bound to arise...
Darrell centered his talk on tax situations where government and individual interests conflict, causing a difficult decision on the part of the lawyer. He stated that in such a situation the lawyer should remember that he is a citizen and must protect the government, no matter what the immediate effect on the client was. He felt that the client would understand and respect the lawyer...
...Disregarding the quality of the work," 65 percent approved of the porter system as a means of student employment. However, 57 percent voted to reestablish maid service next year. Miller admitted these answers seemed to conflict, but said he thought students were differentiating between the theoretical and practical aspects of the problem...
Kenneth Spicer Wherry liked to call himself a "political fundamentalist." He could reduce the shadings of any political controversy into a black & white conflict between free enterprise and socialism, or economy and waste. With stubborn affability, he spent nine years in the Senate defending his own simplified brand of Midwestern Republicanism against Democrats and internationalist Republicans...
...theoretically fatal one of an all-male cast. Billy Budd, the innocent young sailor who represents good in the allegorical struggle with evil, stands in sharp contrast with the wicked Master-at-Arms, Claggart. But Captain Vere had to be "tidied up," made into a more central symbol of conflict: he knows that Billy was framed, but he also knows that under the Articles of War Billy must hang for striking Claggart...