Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Harvard Law School (HLS) Dean Robert C. Clark said he sees Miller's activities as a violation of Harvard's conflict rules for faculty, which state that a full-time faculty member's primary professional loyalty should be to the University...
Clark is now in confidential discussions with Miller about this presumed conflict. He did not say what the consequences might be if it is decided that Miller has, in fact, violated policy...
...premiered in 1962--were well-suited to the Cold War's ideological fervor. It must have been great fun to watch Bond outwit and outclass hapless Commies. World is the third Bond film since the end of the Cold War and, while its Russophobia is still pronounced, the conflict has lost most of its prior urgency. Avarice and vainglory have replaced zealous patriotism as the cardinal passions of Bond's adversaries...
...bigger than himself and honorable enough to devote his life to it. He saved not just Britain but Western civilization itself. And in doing so, he earned for himself the tribute he paid to the fighters of the Royal Air Force in 1940: "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few." --John McCain, U.S. Senator from Arizona...
...African Americans saw the hand of the Ku Klux Klan; others believed that a child pornography ring was responsible. The killings abated after the arrest and conviction of Wayne Williams, a black photojournalist. But suspicions and suppositions continued. Bambara's posthumous docu-novel conveys the period's fear and conflict with a powerful blend of fact, fiction and indignation...