Word: conflict
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...credited) took the unevenness of the Syndicates FP Down There and thickens the sound. But while the effort may alike the group to play about without totally following its listeners, the playing needn't strakes all. More serious is the new sound's tendency to conflict with, rather than support the singing. It even happens (as on "Halloween") that the noise buries the song...
...hazardous waste programs, after she refused to resign at Gorsuch's request. Lavelle's ouster provided a glimpse into the bizarre infighting and bitter policy battles that have given the agency under Gorsuch the ambience of a Borgia palace on the Potomac. Appalled by allegations of perjury, conflict of interest and manipulation of federal funds, three more House subcommittees and a Senate committee joined in the EPA probe. "They're smelling blood," said one Democratic House staff member. "They're smelling all kinds of shenanigans...
Lavelle further weakened her position by feuding openly with Robert Perry, EPA's general counsel. Their first big clash came last spring, when Perry urged her to avoid a conflict of interest in the case of the Stringfellow Acid Pits dump near Riverside, Calif., a high-priority EPA target site where 32 million gal. of toxic wastes had been dumped during 17 years. Before joining EPA, Lavelle had worked for the California chemical company Aerojet-General Corp., where she developed a public relations campaign to counter pollution charges against the company. It was a job that kept her busy...
...what is clear is that we will have some kind of staged review process at long intervals. I think than that will be a very difficult and very painful process for colleagues to go through. I think it will be divisive and potentially will cause a considerable amount of conflict...
...Paris, but whose passion for Edythe Herbert (Twiggy), an aquatic star, overwhelms his passion for the air. Edythe, however, is under the watchful and lustful eye of Prince Nicolai (Bruce McGill), the "Aquacade's" manager, who threatens to show Billy embarrassing photographs of Edythe and prevent their union. This "conflict" functions merely as a device to leave Billy and Edythe separated, but still in love, at the end of the first act. (Sometime during Act II, the Prince finally produces the photographs, which elicit only a throwaway line and an obvious joke from Billy.) Similarly, there exists little reason...