Word: conflict
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...President looks back into history with more understanding now. Harry Truman has grown in his eyes. He has studied Robert Donovan's new Truman book, Conflict and Crisis, and has pressed it on his friend Charles Kirbo. His private pantheon has gained the likes of Astronomer Carl Sagan, Country Singer Larry Gatlin, House Speaker Tip O'Neill. He has sought more information about John Kennedy and James Michael Curley...
NATIONALIST SENTIMENT is diffused in varying degrees throughout the French Canadian population. Nationalism has been exacerbated in Quebec because of the persistent confusion between class antagonism and linguistic and national divisions. The English Canadians have historically dominated the ranks of the business elite, so when French workers conflict with management, they conflict with an English management. Class antagonism assumes the form of national antagonism, and reinforces the already present nationalist element...
...wrote a 19th century Swedish explorer about a land that threatens to become the scene of Africa's next bitter conflict: Namibia. With its 1,000-mile, surf-attacked Atlantic Ocean coastline and its seemingly endless expanses of desert, Namibia (also known as South West Africa) is startlingly beautiful-a virgin land the size of Texas and Louisiana, with a population of only 900,000. More important, it is one of the richest corners of Africa, possessing vast and largely untapped treasures of diamonds, copper, and other minerals. At Rossing, near the deep-water port of Walvis...
Seattle Lawyer Robert Pirtle does not feel torn by conflict when he is smoked on: "If people do not grant you your rights, make a scene." When two men were smoking in an elevator, Pirtle stopped the car and announced, "I'll hold the elevator while you put your cigarettes out." The men stood firm until Pirtle rang the alarm bell, sending them packing...
...months of student activism that went into the proposed Constitution is already being dissipated by the conflict over the Constitution's minority representation clause, which many people have called "inherently anti-democratic." But that is not the real issue here. That clause should not be the determining factor in anyone's vote this week...