Word: conflict
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...their cigarettes and they'd be shipped off to these border towns where they'd have to stand staring at the border. I was aware from a young age that was going on in the world, there's a lot of places where there is this extreme conflict, it's not just an idea, there's actually some kids standing there looking at the border...
...response to her no-show at her Crimson interview, Gillis responded that Wimberley had a “non-negotiable academic conflict.” However, Wimberley, who is the only female candidate, was also the only candidate absent from the Nov. 30 debate and has not attended any student group endorsement meetings...
...floors of its Secretariat building in New York. After he became ambassador, however, colleagues accorded him grudging respect for his professionalism in helping to win unanimous Security Council resolutions on North Korea, and in fostering consensus on tough issues like Iran's nuclear program and the conflict in Sudan...
When Katie Couric took over the CBS Evening News, some viewers wondered whether a Today show anchor could claim Walter Cronkite's mantle. Turns out we were wondering about the wrong Today anchor. When Matt Lauer announced that NBC would start referring to the conflict in Iraq as a "civil war," media observers hailed it as a "Cronkite moment," referring to the CBS anchor's 1968 declaration that the Vietnam War was unwinnable, upon which L.B.J. realized he had lost Middle America...
...talk of a humanitarian crisis is not true." OMAR AL-BASHIR, President of Sudan, rejecting a U.N.-backed peacekeeping mission in war-torn Darfur. Al-Bashir maintained that fewer than 9,000 people had been killed in the conflict, instead of the 200,000 reported by international media...