Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...next Board meeting had been scheduled for May 9, but Gomes has cited a conflict and the meeting has yet to be rescheduled
...poor TF is to change sections--that is, if you realize early enough what you are getting into. But this is often harder than it seems. Switching from one section to another at Harvard is like playing poker. You have to know how to bluff (fabricate a conflict to escape a section with a dismal teaching fellow); you do not know whether trading in your cards (switching sections) will net you a better hand (TF); and you have to know when to walk away and give up the fight (resign yourself to the fact that there is no room...
SETTLEMENT REACHED. Between ANTHONY LAKE, 57, the CIA director-designate, and the Justice Department; in the amount of $5,000; for having delayed selling energy stocks while National Security Adviser; in Washington. The stocks raised a potential conflict of interest, but Justice found no evidence of wrongdoing...
...Students are allowed to switch sections only if they have a time conflict," McHale writes. "We don't, however, look for proof of such conflicts, but take the student at their word...
...general, we try to limit section-switching to those students who have a legitimate conflict rather than those who simply would prefer a more convenient time slot," he writes...