Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Donovan has run into another conflict, which has arisen more and more as the Christian movement broadens. She is a Roman Catholic, and says she found it somewhat difficult to reconcile her new Christian beliefs--beliefs long associated with some of the more fundamentalist forms of Protestantism--with her Catholicism. She now does consider herself a Catholic, after a long period of self-questioning, but still runs into difficulties with some Catholic dogma. Recently, she said, she tried to organize a Bible study group at the Catholic Student Center, where she is very active. The idea met with little enthusiasm...
...ally of Ethiopia's during the late Emperor Haile Selassie's day-had thought of improving its ties with Somalia by sending some military aid. But after the Somali drive on the Ogaden began in July, Washington decided that it had better stay out of this murky conflict. The Somalis accuse the U.S. of breaking its word-although, in fact, no firm commitment was ever made...
Lasorda was in a unique position to know just how good was the team he now led. Nine players on the Dodger roster played minor league ball under his tutelage. O'Malley, who tolerates clubhouse conflict only slightly less than free agents, had long assured an orderly transition. "We had Tommy in mind as a manager about ten years ago," O'Malley explained. "We deliberately took our best young prospects and put them on minor league teams that Tommy was managing. It's paid off. He knows the players...
...scene, and although his movements become a bit repetitive after a few scenes, he plays the role to the hilt, complete with a lilting accent suggesting the mellifluous tones of the Yoruba tongue. If Russell's movements become a bit stale, his characterization does not, and as the central conflict emerges between Jero and his henpecked assistant Chume, Russell pours it on, never losing that vital energy...
...greatest personal dilemma in medicine, Ebert said, is the conflict between what a doctor should know and what it is possible to master. "One can be hopelessly out of date in a decade," he explained. That dilemma pressures medical students to specialize, Ebert said...