Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Under the American system of legislative oversight, there is a built-in conflict between the lawmakers' need to assure themselves that the agency is responsive to democratic control and the CIA director's necessity to keep delicate operations secret as long as possible. Intelligence Committee members argue, with justification, that they can keep a secret when performing their legitimate oversight functions: because of the very nature of such "covert" activities as mining Nicaraguan harbors and blowing up oil tanks, knowledge about the CIA's role in these operations is likely to become public, but generally not through...
...most successful arms control agreements in history: the ABM section of the 1972 SALT I treaty. Recent evidence indicating that the Soviets have violated certain provisions of the treaty still gives no justification for a complete US abrogation. Arms control agreements are few and far between in our conflict-ridden world. They provide a major source of stability at a time when U.S. U.S.S.R. relations...
...real drama of all this little psychoanalysis of puffery is the conflict of two warring substances which subtly oppose the advance of the 'essences' and the 'principles' towards the field of depth. These two substances are water and grease...every campaign of beauty products therefore prepares a miraculous conjunction of these enemy liquids...decay is expelled...France is having a great yen for cleanliness...
...town of Kulyenchikov was laid under a curse by a disgruntled inhabitant. Two things can life the curse. Either an outsider must raise the intelligence of anyone in the town by even a tiny fraction or the descendants of two old families must marry resolving in matrimony the conflict which first produced the curse...
...characters, Rabbit and Wheeler, act out the play's central conflict Wheeler, as his name implies, is a wheeler-dealer in the movie industry, and Rabbit has come to "the city of angels" in search of money and power. They scheme to collaborate on a movie which will "drive people right off the deep end and leave them blithering in the aisles" But they never achieve this ultimate motion picture of the city seeps into their skin and devours them alive...