Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first time, it is indeed a colorful and exciting occassion. Registering at Holyoke Center at some later time means separation from classmates on this emotion-laden day in their career at Harvard. It is the same as having a separate commencement for Jews at Holyoke Center to avoid a conflict of calendar...
...Suleyman Demirel promised that an estimated $35 million would be spent to house all the survivors of Lice in similarly quake-proof homes. The U.S. was expected to offer help, but the Turks, still angered by Congress's halt of arms sales and military aid following the Cyprus conflict, were reportedly reluctant to accept American assistance...
Passionate Familiarity. So much for the public domain (a misreported vote actually did spur a 5½-hour walk out by New York firemen in November 1973) Smith refracts this municipal mischief into the conflict of two fire-fighting brothers, Tom and Jerry Ritter. Tom is an introspective family man who wonders what Spinoza and Kant would say about union politics. Jerry swings through Manhattan's East Side, spouting Dylan Thomas and Yeats. Both vote against the strike, but only one sticks by his conscience - and his hose...
During the sun-drenched days of Empire, some believed that Carlyle's prophecy had come true. But today Britain is still bedeviled, and the captains and the work-hosts have been fighting each other instead of chaos. Indeed, the conflict of power between workers and employers has produced such widespread havoc in recent years that it has come close to destroying Britain's future as an industrial nation. Inflation, fueled in part by excessive union wage demands, is running at a disastrous 26.3% rate, and Britain's very economic survival depends...
...largest union at Rubery Owen, the Transport and General Workers Union (TGWU)?* Whether such men can find some bond of common self-interest will determine the fate of Britain's economy and Wilson's Labor government−and quite possibly more. To help assess the conflict, TIME London Correspondent William McWhirter spent two weeks with managers and workers, observing a company at war with itself...