Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Agency for International Development (USAID) sent Sachs a letter suspending a $14 million contract with Harvard for development work in Russia. The letter accused Andrei Shleifer '82, the project director who is also professor of economics, and Jonathan R. Hay, the project director in Russia, of violating USAID's conflict of interest policies...
...risk taker ever since he made his mark as Arkansas's first big-time securities lawyer two decades ago. As the Rose Law Firm's managing partner, Giroir helped hire Hillary Clinton but was then ousted by her and other partners after some of his outside deals began to conflict with Rose's interests. By then, Giroir already knew the Riadys and was a board member of Worthen National Bank, which they owned jointly with the investment firm Stephens...
...device planted under the church steps ripped massive holes in the side of the building, sending stone, glass and metal flying in every direction. Denise McNair, Cynthia Wesley, Addie Mae Collins and Carol Robertson--ages 11 to 14--died in the blast. Even during the bloodiest days of racial conflict in the South, even in a city so beset by explosives that it was nicknamed Bombingham, this was a uniquely shocking crime. Recalls Representative John Lewis of Georgia, a civil rights veteran who was in Alabama at the time: "It was one of the darkest hours of the civil rights...
What the 300 members of the media attending the game felt was conflict. The Japanese press corps, some 100 strong, was torn between their dislike for Irabu, who has called them "a swarm of locusts," and their desire that he prove the worth of Japanese baseball. The American media wanted a good show, but they also didn't want to see the insufferable George Steinbrenner have the last laugh. The hours before the game were filled with several angry confrontations between sportswriters and Yankee officials, who kept the clubhouse closed at Steinbrenner's command. The owner, not choosing his words...
BELFAST, Ireland: A leaked government memo which seems to show that Northern Ireland Secretary Mo Mowlam considered a Protestant march through a Catholic community "the least worst option" in avoiding conflict has delivered another setback for peace in Northern Ireland, reports TIME's Barry Hillenbrand. The memo, which gives the impression the British government ignored Catholic concerns by permitting the procession, is "a big topic of conversation in Belfast," he says. "The Catholics feel that this is a betrayal, that the British were carrying on negotiations for the show of it. What it has done is make the Catholics much...