Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...attack (Japan did not have to pledge to do the same for the U.S.). In 1976 Japan announced that it would expand its forces so that they could turn back a small-scale invasion, although the country would still depend on the U.S. in case of a major conflict. At the same time, the government imposed a ceiling of 1% of the G.N.P. on military spending...
...Without explanation, the poker-faced monarch proceeded to recite a gnomic waka (a traditional 31-syllable poem) composed by his grandfather, the Meiji emperor: "On the seas surrounding all quarters of the globe/ All people are kin to each other/ Why then do winds and waters of conflict/ Disturb peace among us?" He said no more on the subject...
...Having come back to earth, ex-Metabolists Fumihiko Maki, 54, and Arata Isozaki, 52, Japan's leading architects today, now seek to harmonize and integrate new and old architecture. In spirit, the old and the new have never been far apart. "We never saw the conflict that still seems to bother people in the West," says Nobaki Furuya, an architecture student at Waseda University. "We never saw Le Corbusier or Mies van der Rohe as revolutionaries. For us, they always represented...
...controlling nuclear weapons, as discussed in your article "A Plea for Nuclear Balance" [July 4], I believe there is very little chance that the major powers will engage in nuclear war in the near future. There is no conceivable advantage to be gained by any party in such a conflict. Instead, the first nuclear aggressor will in all likelihood be a relatively isolated country that is affluent enough to possess the bomb but perceives its survival to be endangered by some local dispute. More attention should be paid to controlling nuclear weapons in those areas of the world than between...
...Parkman (1823-93), a wealthy and well-bred Bostonian who entered Harvard in 1840 and began experiencing what he called "symptoms of 'Injuns' on the brain." These soon led to an ambitious disease; the undergraduate decided to write the history of "the whole course of the American conflict between France and England." This task, which lasted his lifetime, was fulfilled in seven books that were published between...