Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...past, student protestors have demanded specifically that Price-Waterhouse-Coopers not be assigned to act as an independent monitor. The firm already serves as a consultant to companies including Nike, Reebok and Liz Claiborne, which some students said creates a conflict of interest...
...fact is that there is a clear conflict of interest," said Daniel M. Hennefeld '99, a member of the Progressive Students Labor Movement...
Although the groups were discussing the long and often bloody conflict between Jews and Palestinians in the Middle East, the Ticknor Lounge discussion was calm and respectful, according to attendees...
...April 5, we described the conflict in Kosovo as having "No End in Sight." Unfortunately, four weeks and 600,000 refugees later, the vision of the end has still failed to materialize. The costs of this conflict, both in terms of resources and human life, are too great for the NATO countries to be satisfied with the rate of progress so far. Either a qualitative change is required in NATO strategy--military or diplomatic--or Clinton and the other NATO leaders must provide a cogent explanation of how the current strategy will lead to success...
...Clinton cannot give strong reasons why the air campaign will suddenly become more effective, then a strategy that would merely continue the present air strikes in the hopes of eventual success would be unacceptable ยค and the use of ground troops might be appropriate. Public impatience with the conflict is justified: The world deserves a more full accounting of NATO's strategy, not just appeals to the bad weather and Milosevic's unpredictable nature. If there is indeed no end in sight, the NATO leaders have at least the responsibility to show us how we will reach the beginning...