Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dictatorship. Cela, raised in Madrid by his Spanish father and English mother, was a university student in 1936 when the war erupted. He joined what readers of Hemingway or Orwell will recognize as the wrong side, taking up arms with Franco against the Republic. He continued his education in conflict, hearing the oxymoronic battle cry of some of his fellow soldiers: Viva la muerte...
...reason that Karajan, Karl Bohm, Carlo Maria Giulini, Sir Georg Solti and the other gerontocrats who dominated the musical scene after World War II were able to last so long was that there was simply no seasoned competition: the conflict killed off a whole generation of Europeans and some Americans, from whose ranks their successors might ordinarily have emerged. Partly as a result, the repertoire stagnated as Karajan and his contemporaries grew increasingly out of touch...
...think it is entirely Moscow's fault that the conflict is not resolved yet," he said, speaking of the struggle between Azerbaijan and Christian Armenia. Kasparov said he doubted a quick solution can be found to religious and ethnic strife there that has killed hundreds, displaced approximately 100,000 and threatened to burst into civil...
Dayan and Mikhael-Ashrawi also disagreed on the means of resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Mikhael-Ashrawi stressed the need for international cooperation, saying, "the mechanism for the peace plan is holding an international conference...
Dean Spence told students that the members of the Faculty Council thought the recommendations simply would not work. He said it would create conflict between the representatives and the chairs. But this "conflict" is exactly what is necessary to get results. It seems that the Faculty Council is afraid not only of the conflict arising from having the structures in place, but of the possible conflict of even considering the recommendations. Facing this issue, even if it is controversial, can only be a healthy and needed experience for the Faculty...