Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...COURSE, the conflict on the Nicaraguan border is hardly a conflagration. It has been more like a smouldering cigarette butt, so far. But these fires have a way of getting out of control rather quickly. Remember how low key the conflict was in Vietnam in 1964, and how quickly it overwhelmed not only that nation, but Laos and Cambodia as well...
...twilight known to doctors as a "permanent vegetative state." For their families, they are a constant source of anguish, and there is a tremendous financial burden (as much as $100,000 a year, usually paid by insurance). These patients pose a knotty ethical dilemma for doctors as well --a conflict between the duty to sustain life and the obligation to relieve suffering. With few professional guidelines to help them resolve the conflict, doctors have frequently decided to continue treatment because of their moral qualms or fear of legal consequences...
Since then, Savimbi has foregone any conceivable peaceful resolution of the conflict by accepting aid, arms and even occasional direct military support from South African forces. Angola, which used to boast a vibrant tourist industry and a comparatively energetic economy, has been devastated by the war of attrition that pits the MPLA and 30,000 Cuban troops against UNITA and the South African army...
Echoing the message of her late husband, Martin Luther King Jr., Coretta Scott King last night told a Memorial Church audience that "non-violence can be applied to solve every major conflict facing humanity today...
...Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few." Winston Churchill paid that celebrated tribute to the Royal Air Force fighter pilots who won the 48-day Battle of Britain in 1940, thus thwarting plans for a Nazi invasion of England. The backbone of the R.A.F. was the agile Spitfire, the speedy (364 m.p.h.), quick-turning, British-built fighter plane that literally flew circles around enemy aircraft...