Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...point of conflict among panelists was identifying the most perilous point of the Cold...
...hope in 32 years to win back Kentucky's Fourth Congressional District, made a point of not showing up last week when Clinton arrived at the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport. Instead, Lucas stumped for votes just across the Ohio River. "People wanted me to say I had a scheduling conflict, but I didn't want to make up an alibi," says Lucas, 65. "I made the decision not to see him the moment this mess came down...
...class has since been moved to Paine Hall,which can accommodate an additional 60 students.It could not be moved to Sanders Theatre becauseof conflict with Social Analysis 10: "Principlesof Economics," which is held at the same time, andthe second largest space, Science Center B, isoccupied by Biological Sciences 2: "Organismic andEvolutionary Biology...
Organized roughly chronologically, Cold War ranges over 45 years and all across the globe as it explains and makes vivid this sprawling, complicated conflict. It features interviews with ordinary people as well as leaders like George Bush and Fidel Castro. Equally important, the series lets us hear from the mid-level officials (the commander of Soviet forces in Afghanistan, for example) who have the grittiest knowledge of how policy was actually carried out. There is narration, tautly delivered by Kenneth Branagh, but the story is told primarily through film footage of events and the recollections of participants. The filmmakers have...
...climax to the story, it was a little weak. There was no conflict, no point of dramatic tension, not even a gaudy parabola for the money shot. On Monday, after fans had waited 37 years, Mark McGwire hit his record-tying 61st home run of the season, and the next night he showed up for his prime-time network-television special to hit No. 62. The record-breaking shot was McGwire's shortest, lamest homer of the year. Afterward, we looked to the media to be told what the moral significance was. It was like someone brought in the writers...