Word: conflicted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After a series of unsuccessful efforts to clean up the machinery of government--Defense Department and NASA contracting, conflict of interest problems, questionable land deals, tax evasion--Mollenhoff resigned in May, 1970, frustrated by his lack of clout and effectiveness. "I had never realized before," he reflected in the interview, "that even though you have a title and an office in the White House, you can get boxed out to the point of having no authority or influence. One had to be on the inside to get the full flavor of the enormous power and great reverence for the President...
Mean Streets first showed the conflict between Scorsese's natural gift for human observation and his attraction to social and psychological statements...
...conflict he can resolve only in a violence that seems forced and-coming after so much dreariness-ridiculously pyrotechnical...
This history of World War II shell-and-pea games might have been merely an oversized gathering of spy stories. But there is far more seething below the surface of espionage and counterintelligence. According to British Journalist Anthony Cave Brown, the conflict was a looking-glass war whose cruel and brilliant espionage far outran the fabrications of le Carré and Eric Ambler...
There is, therefore, no fundamental conflict between the interests of Americans and third world citizens. The tremendous productivity by which Americans earn their wealth will also help the underdeveloped nations to climb out of poverty, if only given a chance. The goodwill Americans bear towards the third world is exemplified at this moment by the millions of dollars of aid they are voluntarily donating to the victims of the disastrous Guatemalan earthquake. (At the very same time the imperialistc governments of Cuba and the Soviet Union are spending billions to colonize Angola, a goal they have given much toward...