Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Washington, one of the three members of theBoard elected on a pro-divestment slate, said herdiscussions with Steiner touched on more than justthe divestment issue. But she added that they"discussed how to resolve the divestment issuewithout causing conflict with the Corporation,without taking a vote and presenting a Boardposition...
...past, much of American foreign policy designed to promote Arab-Israeli negotiations has been based on faulty presumptions, Mylroie says. American leaders have always assumed that Middle Eastern countries desire a peaceful resolution to the Arab-Israeli conflict. So Washington policymakers have always aimed at quelling Arab desires to retake Israel as a Palestinean homeland through negotiations at the bargaining table, says Mylroie, who has consulted with State Department officials about her research and conclusions...
...thinks student activism is on the rise and will continue to grow as the campaign progresses. "Students are interested but they need a sense that they make a difference," Leshkowich says. She adds Harvard's schedule makes campaigning difficult, because exam and registration schedules in the fall and winter conflict with important political events...
...Clark's defense fund. This past week brought some big bucks. Jack Berdy, chairman and CEO of On-Line Software, a computer company in Fort Lee, N.J., pledged $1 million in scholarships to Eastside over the next ten years, on the condition that the board resolve its conflict with the principal. "I think dismissal is inappropriate for a man who has brought so much to that school," says Berdy...
...less likely to be used against a threat posed by the Soviet Union than against a state like Libya, whose primary offense would probably be directed against the U.S. Writes Neoconservative Guru Irving Kristol in the Wall Street Journal: "What they do fear is getting entangled in a conflict that serves American interests but not their own. In short, what was once defined as an identity or at least mutuality of interests has ceased...