Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This aloof decision-making style, coupled with an embarrassing lack of communication, ought to serve as a telling reminder for years to come. Fortunately, there will apparently be no scars of racial conflict to accompany the memories. Harvard, so prestigious and smug., made its equally elite Ivy allies look like bold innovators in this episode. If this sort of leadership affects other issues, Harvard's tradition of excellence will certainly suffer...
...more rights to the country's 2.7 million coloreds, or citizens of mixed race, and its 835,000 Asians. Botha has proposed to divide Parliament into three chambers: one for South Africa's 5 million whites, another for the coloreds and a third for the Asians. Any conflict among the three chambers would be adjudicated by a white-controlled President's Council. The plan gives no political rights to the country's 20 million blacks, who are supposed to become citizens of "homelands" that will in theory, though not in practice, all become independent of South...
...need your great talent, energy, collaboration, faith, loyalty, challenge and honest counsel." Then he spoke touchingly of his troubled predecessor. "I was four years old when the Cardinal became a priest. We are men of different generations and different experiences. I was saddened by the pain, suffering and conflict that seemed to cloud his final years. By any objective measure, Cardinal Cody did many good things for Chicago that make my work easier. If any hard feeling, bitterness or anger-toward the Cardinal or among yourselves-remain in your hearts, tonight is the night to cast off this burden...
...issue) will be marketed jointly by Time Inc. and cable-system owners, with both sharing in the revenues. Because of that arrangement, and because Time Inc. is itself a major supplier of cable programs through its Home Box Office and Cinemax movie channels, some competitors raised questions of potential conflict of interest. Peter Funt, editor and publisher of On Cable, characterized the plan as "sort of like inviting the fox in to give a lesson to the chickens." Said Merrill Panitt, editorial director of TV Guide: "Our feeling is that if we became a marketing tool for cable companies...
Greenberg's skin color is not overtly an issue in the other conflict. But it is a factor. In 1957 the N.A.A.C.P. and the L.D.F., after a long affiliation, parted amicably. But now the N.A.A.C.P. is suing to have its initials removed from the L.D.F.'s name. The main reasons: public confusion and competition for contributions. But some insiders concede that the disharmony, which has been building for several years, partly reflects the feelings of younger black lawyers, trained during the activist '60s and early '70s, who resent white leadership in the civil rights movement...