Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Gautam: David, I let you talk. Return the favor... and it is possible that one of the rules of the administration is to give a longer term perspective of people who have spent more time here and sometimes, inevitably, those things conflict with what the students want because we haven't seen as much as they have. At the least I think we owe them some degree of respect for the attainments that they have to become Harvard administrators. It's not easy, guys...
...closer examination of the conflict quashes the popular predilection for bestowing states on oppressed minorities, yet it also casts doubt on the viability of continued rule. If nothing else the war in Chechnya is a lesson in the complexities and lack of real solutions to ethnic conflict, and a rebuke to the advocates of easy answers...
Despite McCain's occasional inconsistencies, his supporters argue that he would have an unmatched amount of credibility and conviction when it really counts: the moment a President decides to send troops into conflict. "The decisions you face in the White House are 50.1 against 49.9, and there are persuasive people on both sides," Kissinger says. "McCain has had the sort of experience that he could not have survived without knowing who he was and what he stood for." Says Connecticut Senator Joseph Lieberman, one of McCain's Democratic allies: "John has lived for years with these foreign-policy questions...
Some students shy away from even the minimal UTEP requirements (I thought it would conflict with my thesis). Most, though, have barely heard about the program. UTEP is only briefly publicized during our first year and then often never heard about again...
...There should not be allowed to develop a conflict of interest between say, Greek and Turkish studies...I get on extremely well with my colleagues in Ottoman and Turkish studies. I don't see why it should be anything other than that way," she says...