Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Senator wrote that he "would seek toresolve the conflict" but does not say whetherHarvard should divest...
Jewett said he thinks it is possible todiscipline protesters uncontroversially. He saidthat because the new body has a widerjurisdiction, disciplinary hearings for politicalprotest will not engender the conflict they havein the past when students charged that the CRR wasa poltical tribunal...
...years U.S. agricultural exports to Europe have considerably increased in volume. The U.S.-E.C. balance, in terms of agriculture, is very positive for the U.S., which means it is not true that Europe is protectionist. The Americans always want more -- not a very fair position. When there is conflict, you must not use gunboat diplomacy. The problem is not Franco- American. It is a European Community-U.S. issue...
...invincible passion for independence." This is not to say he achieved it. Colin Simpson's Artful Partners concedes that B.B.'s spirit may have been willing but that his flesh was weak. The evidence is incriminating: a secret 1912 contract with Duveen that reads like a textbook on conflict of interest, and a clandestine "X ledger," which details the artful partners' profits, losses and restoration expenses. There are also numerous examples that suggest Berenson relaxed his standards or changed his mind to accommodate Duveen and his brothers, who, as Simpson writes, were ignorant about Italian painting but knew that "pictures...
...international crises go, it would be hard to find a more mundane conflict than one about oil-drilling rights in a disputed patch of the Aegean Sea. Yet last week Greece and Turkey came close to blows over just that argument. Athens ordered its military forces on full alert and threatened to forcibly prevent the Turkish research vessel Sismik 1, with an escort of two warships, from conducting petroleum explorations in waters near the Greek islands of Lesbos, Lemnos and Samothrace...