Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...will select a developer for 27 acres of property that it owns in Cambridgeport. Under the current codes, MIT, which is the single largest landowner in the neighborhood, can build virtually whatever it wants on the property, a prospect which understandably upsets many neighborhood residents and city officials. The conflict is by no means a new one: The residents and MIT have been stalemated for ten years over the question of what should be built. Still, as the deadline for action approaches, the council has not acted...
...Schmidt government came as no real surprise. His own Social Democratic Party was riven with disagreement over his unyielding support for NATO's defense policy in Western Europe. His curiously low-keyed reaction to the Soviet-backed imposition of martial law in Poland had brought him into conflict with the Reagan Administration as a more fundamental dispute with Washington emerged over differing approaches to the Soviet Union. A burgeoning pacifist and environmental movement, strongly supported by West German youth, found Schmidt a tempting political target, draining support from his own Social Democratic rank and file. But finally, basic differences...
Those Those who who like like artists artists with with dramatic dramatic lives (hot, heavy, conflict-ridden ear-cutters or their SoHo clones) will be dis appointed by Milton Avery's. No major American artist has a thinner dossier. A mild, unassuming man who disliked publicity and made at best a bare living from his work, he joined no groups, signed no manifestos, was linked to no political causes, clobbered no body in the Cedar Bar and said very little about himself; when asked for his theories about art, his usual reply was "Why talk when you can paint...
That was only the beginning. The Columbia board, anxious to reverse its chief officer's decision, reopened a possible conflict-of-interest question regarding Hirschfield's wife Berte, who was briefly employed by a market-research firm serving the studio as well as other clients. Hirschfield retaliated by inviting other corporations to buy a major interest in the studio, among them Philip Morris and Time Inc. When the search failed, he refused to retract a sulfurous memo aimed at fellow Board Member Matty Rosenhaus. The Geritol magnate's reaction: " 'You're a liar! A liar...
NINTH: The gravest risk in this crisis was not that either head of government desired to initiate a major escalation but that events would produce actions, reactions or miscalculations carrying the conflict beyond the control of one or the other or both. In retrospect we are inclined to think that both men would have taken every possible step to prevent such a result, but at the time no one near the top of either government could have that certainty about the other side. In any crisis involving the superpowers, firm control by the heads of both governments is essential...