Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Since then, supporters of the bills have traded charges with opponents over who exactly caused the current shortage. The two largest landowners in the proposals thus leading to a new round of sparring in the traditional town-gown conflict. In the meantime, the prospect of urgent housing relief gets buried in layers of political conflict...
...which say gets which girl gets lost in a choppy and predictable plot. Gene gets the woman he desires and Jonarthan gets Marilyn, the woman he desires. The audience is then privy to drawn out corny flirtation scenes executed on Ithyphallic and sensual horses. However Gene naturally has a conflict with the town...
PERHAPS. ON A small Pacific island or in the youthful America of Frank Capra's movies, democracy is a viable option. There popular vote could quickly solve any conflict over statehood, fishing rights, or coconut claims. But today's burgeoning bureaucracy hides the reins of power from the people beneath greasy, matted layers of agencies, offices, and aides; everyone is involved but no one knows what they are doing. Like crowds of cooks busy with broth, democracy will surely contaminate the soup of state...
When Pope John Paul II set foot on Venezuelan soil last week, a familiar challenge awaited him. On his sixth evangelizing mission to Latin America in six years, the Pope is once again being asked to put his formidable energies and charismatic appeal to work at resolving a conflict of potentially continent-wide proportions. John Paul is determined to prevent that conflict from distorting what he sees as the true nature of Catholicism. The challenge: liberation theology...
...demand for ordination is perhaps the most fundamental conflict between the church's hierarchy and its militant women critics. "It is the central issue because without it, there is no route to power within the church," says Mary Gordon, a lay activist and author of the novel Final Payments. Arlene Swidler, who teaches religion at Villanova, says simply, "Ordination remains the central issue because it includes everything...