Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...readiness and enthusiasm with which some Americans approach the decision to bomb is linked to the disparity in human cost on the U.S. and Iraqi sides of the conflict. The Gulf War and its televised missile operations gave us an impression that the conflict was costless. For the Iraqis, however, it was not. If American losses were expected to be on par with Iraqi casualties, it can safely be said that we in the U.S. would not be so eager to attack...
...Holmes Realty Trust is poised to demolish this Central Square property. But conflict over the architecture of the building that will rise in place of these stores stopped the wrecking ball in its tracks earlier this month...
David L.K. Trumbull, chair of the Cambridge Republican City Committee, says the conflict surrounding the recent election stems from the city's use of the title "mayor," even though the city has what he describes as a "weak mayor" system...
...with an interest, either close or remote, in this case. My whole media campaign and my decision to do this article have all been designed to demonstrate that my client is a responsible young woman who speaks the truth but got caught in the web of a complicated government conflict, orchestrated and engineered by people with a political and personal agenda. No one is funding her. No one is standing behind her. No one cares about her except us. And we have to tell the story...
There's no doubt that the film played toward every nerd stereotype and town-gown conflict it possibly could. The MIT math professor who discovers Hunting's genius is your basic arrogant academic who can't believe that the boy who sweeps his classroom can also solve equations. Hunting's girlfriend, a Harvard senior headed for med school, is rich, privileged, and housed in an ivy-covered dorm which could be any of Harvard's undergraduate houses...