Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...than national security. Calvin Coolidge and Herbert Hoover have been castigated by historians for watching the signs of looming economic chaos in the 1920s and failing to take action that might have helped control the damage. The entire roster of modern problems-central-city decay, environmental pollution, civil rights conflict-could be seen approaching, but no President really moved to head them...
Along with the fall in oil prices, the region's economy has been hit hard by the three-year-old war of attrition between Iran and Iraq. That conflict could expand and seriously curtail oil shipments. Moreover, the two combatants sharply reduced their imports of Western goods...
Partial returns are now in with two new projects. "HighRise of Homes" exists so far only as an exhibit for art galleries, yet Wines insists that it is commercially and structurally feasible. The project is an attempt to resolve the basic conflict of urban America: people want to live close together in order to enjoy the cultural and commercial benefits of high residential concentration and to reduce urban sprawl and the cost of commuting. But they also want single-family houses with architectural diversity and some private greenery around them. Wines would take these separate homes, yards...
...idea in coming to Harvard was to look at the South African situation from an objective viewpoint," Conway says, adding. "South Africa is a real issue on campus and a source of conflict between students and administrators. There's no real consensus on how to handle the issues...
...Conway has immersed himself in the Harvard community is through the Law School where Conway is involved with the Harvard Negotiation Project, a program founded by negotiation expert Roger Fisher, which focuses on conflict resolution...