Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Besides the two most recent grievances against him, Winig say, he can recall one other, based on a "personality conflict," during his 10 years of UHS practice...
Kohl will have to tread cautiously at home. Even before his Bundestag victory last week, West Germany's powerful trade unions had begun girding for conflict with the new Chancellor, who must quickly come to grips with problems of the country's sagging economy. The most sensitive issue is social-welfare spending: at a time when 1.8 million West Germans are unemployed, businessmen are complaining loudly that 70% of their labor costs are for social benefits, the steepest percentage in Western Europe. Says Liane Launhardt, an economist for the Frankfurt-based Commerzbank: "There is no doubt that what...
When the N.F.L. strike created its first hole in the air waves last Thursday night, ABC-TV offered instead The Cheap Detective, a comedy film about a befuddled gumshoe. Not such an inappropriate choice, perhaps. Though there is nothing cheap about this conflict, a dogged investigator may indeed be needed to wade through the welter of plans, positions and proposals to figure out whodunit. Who is responsible for the strike and what exactly is the fight about...
...Washington, Boston and Chicago. If the NFL strike drags on, the USFL, whose season starts in March, could capture the market for televised football--especially if a few NFL stars decide to sign contracts to play in the fledgling circuit. That disastrous possibility may eventually convince the owners that conflict with their players is much more costly than cooperation...
...attention span; perhaps the nightly television news reports about the war started to look like re-runs. In any case, two new documentaries about the turmoil--and the first such films actually made by Salvadorans--will be shown in Cambridge this weekend, and they provide a view of the conflict which it is hard to imagine any foreign reporter or analyst matching...