Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dramatized because the elements of drama no longer exist. Instead, the narrator tells us about 1986, the year humanity took its first step down the evolutionary ladder. The tale is a burlesque that mixes natural history, sitcom humor and the Old Testament. For the Flood there is conflict, economic disaster and pollution; the part of Noah's Ark is played by the Bahia de Darwin, a cruise ship that shuttles tourists from Ecuador to the Galapagos. There are baggy-pants characters including a Midwestern con man, a widowed schoolteacher, a Japanese computer wizard and a German sea captain. All converge...
...forge foreign policy. Jeane Kirkpatrick, who serves on the journal's advisory board, contributes a speech arguing the morality of U.S. aid to anti-Communist rebels. In an essay, Kristol says that support is growing in the U.S. for a muscular foreign policy grounded in the belief that the conflict between the U.S. and the Soviet Union is not one of clashing national interests, as some liberals say, but of ideologies. Kristol predicts that the U.S. will be quicker to use its military power in the years ahead if there is a commitment to victory. "That there should...
...predominantly Buddhist. The Tamils' main hope for the future now rests with Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi, who helped arrange the latest cease-fire. Tamil leaders are pressing Gandhi to persuade Sri Lankan President Junius Jayewardene to grant them substantial autonomy, and thus put an end to the bloody conflict...
...original conflict over advertisements has been blown greatly out of proportion, Maceroni said. "The university has silenced a student and violated my civil rights. If it can silence one student, it can silence a whole student body," Maceroni said...
...Quincy Street and Lowell House raise, for the first time in many years, questions of application: what specific kinds of behavior fall within and without the bounds enshrined in the Resolution. The crux of the matter, of course, is that different rights and different responsibilities sometimes come into conflict. Such conflict is inevitable in any setting in which discourse involving differing opinions on issues of great importance is a significant part of ongoing activity. It is expecially so in a university community, for here reasoned discourse is the fundamental rationale for the community's existence...