Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Women can make unique contributions to public office, Ferraro said. "Instead of engaging in conflict, women are more likely to negotiate. Instead of focussing on the short term, women are more likely to think of generations to come," she said...
...putting all conceivable barriers in front of the union, it is high time to let the employees make their own choice. When filing its election petition yesterday, the union defined the bargaining unit in the same terms as the administration used in the past, to avoid further legal conflict. Harvard should abide by its own rules, as well...
Baldwin and his confrontational cohorts are crying persecution, but they deserve no sympathy. Even if their journalistic attack on Cole was warranted, their harassment and intrusion on his privacy were not. The editors of The Review inexcusably provoked racial conflict, and Dartmouth College is justified in suspending them...
...refer to either her new lover or her trip. "How's old Geneva then? Frank doing well?" "What?" Charlotte asks. "The Swiss Franc. Is it doing well?" They refuse to address the crisis at hand. Instead, Max digresses on apparently far-out topics which actually parallel the scene's conflict, a technique Stoppard uses and overuses later...
...misunderstandings about the role of the Advisory Committee on Race Relations, the Dean of the Faculty and others in matters such as this. I have also heard concerns and questions about freedom of expression in the classroom. The writer of a recent thoughtful article wondered whether there was a conflict between the students' concerns and academic freedom. Late [Monday] afternoon, I did receive a letter from two of the students who consulted with the Advisory Committee. I asked them to write directly to the faculty member as originally suggested, and I believe they will do that. I have no comment...