Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Crane counters that "the people of Massachusetts elected a full-time Treasurer," and that the State Ethics Commission does not consider his consulting work a conflict of interest...
Students know this. We are all able to see the element of absurdity in the conflict of sixties youthful idealism and the eighties middle-aged complacency. The fervor of today's youth is tempered by cynicism. Not even the most drugaddled mind at the Reality Fest believed that the event was for a good cause...
Lazarus was quite right in pointing to the media's "Model Minority" theme as a source of misconception about Asian Americans. Yet he too fell victim to those newsworthy, yet oversimplified assessments of American Asians. Lazarus too readily accepts the fallacious idea that Asian Americans are caught between two conflicting cultures. There should be no conflict with being an American and being of Asian ancestry, for having grandparents who were born in Canton, Toyko or Seoul is just as American as having forefathers from Milan, Budapest or Edinburgh...
...PHRASE town-gown conflict usually conjures up a battle between Harvard officials and Cambridge residents over real-estate or taxes. But the phrase took on new meaning for me the other day when I was tossed out of a local restaurant because a manager didn't like my attitude...
...times before actually meeting him at the Tasty. He sports several earrings and a real smooth mannerism that goes with his jean jacket. This guy also was mean, looking to start a fight with a redhaired guy who sat alone at the table. But Karl refereed and brought the conflict...