Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Klein's case, "run and hide" was the most peaceable solution to fire door conflict. However, there are those who spend a great deal of time wondering about the suite beyond the fire-door...
...central linguistic motif of some of his political poems became of use to him, as he noted in his lectures, when he approached the translation of Beowulf. A motif of his political poems is the conflict between the rich vowel sounds of the Irish language and the consonant-heavy word-clumps of the Anglo-Saxon. In approaching the Beowulf translation, Heaney faced a different problem--cramming what he called the "giant ingots" of the Anglo-Saxon tongue into the "itty bitty tiny" parameters of moden English, parameters Heaney has broken through with consummate skill in much of his own poetry...
...also a woman of color, said she believed discrimination in city administration has been an ongoing phenomenon. Last year, when the newly-hired principal of the Agassiz Elementary School left her post before her first year was up, Harris said she believed discrimination was at the root of the conflict...
Hopes to finally resolve an old conflict between the Harvard Faculty Club and one of its neighbors, Louise G. Fitzgerald Huber, were put on hold at last night's general hearing of the Cambridge License Commission at City Hall...
Holbrooke is, of course, used to a little conflict. He emerged as America's trouble-shooting ambassador back in 1995, when he brokered the Bosnian peace. With a long diplomatic pedigree--his first job was working for the State Department in Vietnam--he has brought personality to the gray world of diplomacy. Most prospective nominees would have stayed far out of sight for fear of doing anything that might have spoiled their chances. Holbrooke, however, accepted the high-profile assignment to try to stop the killing in Kosovo. The dangers were substantial: a blown peace agreement could wreck his nomination...