Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...already has a huge advantage over the Soviet Union in three respects: geography makes it far easier for the U.S. to get its subs to sea and keep them there; U.S. subs are much quieter than Soviet ones and therefore harder to track and destroy in a conflict; and American SLBMs are more numerous, more accurate and altogether more potent than Soviet ones...
...conflict is sharply limned in Black Life in Corporate America, a book that says integration in the upper levels of the white-collar work force is a sham. The coauthors, George Davis, a novelist, and Glegg Watson, who helps direct educational grants at Xerox Corp., explain that they might have paraphrased an old Jamaican-sect expression as a theme: "How can African man live at IBM without losing himself?" The answer: he cannot. They conclude that even where overt discrimination does not exist, black managers feel they must not only outperform their white competitors to get ahead, but also hide...
What Snow called a "gulf of mutual incomprehension" yawns ever wider, according to Stanford Engineering Professor James Adams, who describes the problem as a conflict between the "techs" (engineers and scientists) and the "fuzzies" (liberal arts students): "The techs are considered by the fuzzies to be nerds. The techs, in turn, consider the fuzzies as only marginal at reaching logical conclusions, probably unable to keep their bicycles in operation and completely unable to support themselves after graduation...
...matter how vast and tumultuous the crowds assembled for its most spectacular sequences, no matter what the cost and care lavished on its re-creation of vanished epochs, no matter how vividly it realizes the violence of great historical forces caught up in deadly conflict, the epic cinema finally depends on small matters-the touch of a hand, a look in the eyes, a whisper of dialogue-to make a lasting emotional connection with its audience. This is particularly true of films about figures whose claim on the attention of the world is exerted not through force of arms...
After World War II, members of the victorious Alliance recognized that open trade, which creates global interdependence, would reduce the likelihood of international conflict. The world's trading partners formed GATT so that they could meet at occasional conferences to make mutual commitments to tariff reductions. Nations agreed to lower their trade barriers and to accept increased imports in exchange for the opportunity to expand exports...