Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...HELL. YOU'VE HEARD IT said many times by shell-shocked servicemen, cynical sargeants and sunglassed supreme commanders. To judge from history, armed conflict has been humanity's favorite pastime, using everything imaginable: primitive wooden spears, bronze swords and shields, grenade launchers, cutting remarks, Agent Orange, frying pans and other domestic appliances, and tiny atoms which go boom in a big way. Yet one has to wonder why, if war is to be conceived as an unpleasant phenomenon, we humans spend so much time and effort thinking up excuses to get embroiled...
...member, Minister of State Roch LaSalle, resigned last week after it was revealed that he had been the guest of honor at a dinner at which guests paid $5,000 apiece for the privilege of meeting him. And Mulroney has been accused of violating his own guidelines for avoiding conflict of interest by complaining about a lawsuit against one of his advisers in a call to his lawyer...
...semiconductors are wizards at running just about everything, from talking bears to ballistic missiles -- but they cannot yet settle an argument. In fact, they are the cause of a fierce controversy between the U.S. and Japan, whose ill-matched trade balances have become a perennial source of friction. The conflict is rich in intrigue and deception, involving illegal practices, predatory salesmen, a suitcase brigade and even a smoking gun. At stake is not only the future of the $11.4 billion U.S. semiconductor industry but also the fate of the sophisticated weapons systems on which national security depends...
Faced with the imposition of sharp punitive tariffs, Japan signed the semiconductor trade agreement on July 31. But any hopes that the new accord would settle the conflict were quickly dashed. When the prices of Japanese chips sold in the U.S. began to climb, U.S. chip buyers objected, and some began threatening to take their manufacturing operations overseas. Meanwhile, slower sales abroad created a chip glut in Japan, driving Far East prices as much as 50% below the agreed-upon "fair market" values. Result: a boom in illicit roundabout sales. Large numbers of low-priced Japanese chips turned...
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