Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...concept of an activist council can go too far, of course. An undergraduate council that devoted most of its time debating Third World debt or conflict in the Middle East would quickly and rightly become an irrelevant laughingstock...
Bush last week said he was looking for "room for flexibility" on the issue and did not wish "conflict" on abortion--an issue that has been troublesome for him throughout his political career. But this week he hardened his stand and promised the veto...
SITTING on the sidelines of the conflict is Robert G. Stone '45, a member of the Harvard Corporation, the University's governing body, who has been a director of Pittston since 1984. Pittston was no corporate saint when Stone came on board, and it hasn't improved much since. Whether Stone is unwilling or unable to influence his fellow directors, we don't know. Regardless, Stone's day of reckoning has arrived...
...that election, he noted that "my real interest is serving and building a coalition as a communicator." One adviser notes that since the last presidential campaign, Jackson has been looking for a "steady platform" that would keep him in the public eye. There has never been a conflict in Jackson's ability to talk, talk, talk while he runs, runs, runs...
...clampdown could create conflict between automakers and the oil industry, as each side seeks to pass responsibility for meeting the standards on to the other. "The carmakers want to say 'reformulate the gasoline,' " says William Randol, an oil-industry analyst for First Boston. "But who will make the investment to do this?" He noted that Shell Oil has estimated that it would cost billions of dollars to develop new clean-burning gasolines...