Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Ross, a New Yorker who is in charge of Defense's legislative and public affairs, stoutly maintains that there is no conflict of interest involved. Over the years, he explained, the clothing company, until recently headed by his brother-in-law, had been awarded a great many contracts for military clothing. Ross himself, until 1952, had been vice president of the firm, but divested himself of all company connections when he went to work in the Pentagon. Last winter, right after Mrs. Ross became president of the company, she was awarded the contract for the 249,000 pairs...
...Obviously there were some people in Washington who thought that Mrs. Ross should have stopped making pants for the Army long ago; now it was possible-under the stern Eisenhower code forbidding even the appearance of conflict of interest-that she may have made the pants too long...
...commission's activities when its present term expires on Feb. 1, contending that "it would be foolish, if not illegal, to extend the life of the commission" since "the United States Supreme Court has held that the states cannot legislate in the field of subversive activities because this would conflict with existing federal laws...
...Chinese Communists will probably continue to encourage revolutionary movements in Asia, Friedrich and Brzezinski assert. "There is also no doubt," the authors state, "that the areas of conflict and unrest in the Middle East will provide the Soviet Union with ample opportunities for political maneuvers to set in motion a revolutionary chain of events...
...which are at once amusing and profound. But there are other stretches which are quite dull. The trouble here seems to be that Beckett ventured on dangerous ground when he did away with a plot and made his characters into symbols rather than people. The mainspring of drama is conflict between very much living and three-dimensional people, even if they are confined to a stage. Beckett, however, expected to let his ideas carry most of the interest through the evening, but they are not always enough. Thus while Waiting for Godot is in large measure a success, I doubt...