Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...University has refused to change the date of next year's Commencement, despite the request from 30 Jewish students that the June 7 ceremony will conflict with the Jewish holiday of Shavuos...
Columbia spokesman Fred Knubel said yesterday that last April officials moved this year's May 18 commencement a day up to avoid a conflict with the holiday, which ran from the evening of the 17th to the evening of 19th. Besides "some inconvenience, there was nothing controversial" about the situation, he said...
...original sin in El Salvador was viewing the guerrillas solely as Soviet surrogates. Conflict in El Salvador resulted from economic, political and social inequities, not the long arm of the alleged worldwide communist revolution. But the Administration never negotiated seriously for a settlement. Last year's supposedly "democratic" elections backfired when an extreme right coalition took power. And they were a scheme to begin with because the guerrilla--afraid they would be murdered by the military--did not participate...
...first real conflict that took place in the area came up about seven years ago over genetics and recombinant DNA. It not only pitted activist against researcher, but divided the scientific community as well Nobel laureates George Wald, Higgins Professor of Biology, and James D. Watson, Cabot Professor of Natural Science, openly clashed as leftist Wald opposed unbridled research while Watson who helped discover DNA two decades earlier argued the case for free rein...
...single donation to the photographic research project, satisfied both the University's and the Museum's standards for private philanthropy. "We would never be able to accept a gift with strings or conditions attached to it," said O'Reilly, "but in this case, there were no strings and no conflict of interest at all "She added that the Fahd gift in no way seeks to control the scope or direction of the Semitic Museum's research, and that the foreign grant was treated like any routine donation...