Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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American-Japanese friendship may soon be shattered by trade conflict unless both nations work to reconcile their domestic economic policy, Harvard Business School professors said yesterday...
Governor Michael S. Dukakis and his would-be successor, Republican George Kariotis, faced off last night in a packed Fanueil Hall, despite the evening's other, more compelling conflict...
Individuals carrying the AIDS virus pose a serious problem for the military in another way. In conflict situations all personnel are considered walking blood banks. If no blood is available for casulties, the injured are dependent on their healthy comrades to provide it. But receiving AIDS-infected blood may eventually prove fatal, although the initial injury should not have. This point alone shows that the military's concern is based on more than the unfounded homophobia associated with AIDS...
...Crimson editorial says there is "no place at Harvard" for "a program like ROTC which is committed to military values and priorities that inevitably conflict with the ideals of openness and tolerance for which, we are so often reminded, the Harvard community stands." But this is contradictory to reality. Our nation unquestionably needs an effective military arm, and it is highly unlikely that "the ideals of openness and tolerance" could be practiced at Harvard if our founding fathers and our current government did not field an able military force. The academic freedom and stature we enjoy in this country...
...Desert Breakdown, 1968" is a consummately terrifying story. It is about a couple on their way to California to start the proverbial new life, when their car breaks down. The conflict begins when the man decides to hitchhike to the nearest town and leaves his wife and son with the car at an outpost in the middle of the desert. Some very spooky cowboy types hang out at the outpost. The story is about betrayal, but it is almost Gothic in the way it renders the stillness of the blank desert and the pink-cheeked yokels grotesque and terrifying...