Word: conflicted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reach the Parliament building in Christian-controlled territory. "You do not represent the people. You do not represent anyone," they shouted over a loudspeaker, then opened fire, killing one of the bodyguards of Phalangist Leader Pierre Gemayel. When retreating Phalangists took up positions in the hotel district, the conflict took on an added symbolic intensity. "I'm going to sleep in the Holiday Inn tonight," pledged one strutting Moslem fighter as he prepared for an assault on the Christian outpost. By week's end the Phalangists still held what became known as the "hotel front...
This year's returns even managed to flout the academics' definition of an election as a mechanism for institutionalized conflict and change--though the ballots aren't all counted yet, it looks as though the new Cambridge City Council will be very much like...
...started to exert pressure on certain professors to stay around Cambridge more." Salmon, however, denies that time spent away has become a problem. "As long as it is an average of only 20 days a year," he says, "and loyalty remains to the Business School, there is no conflict." Salmon adds that the School even encourages outside work on the grounds that it is often consistent with the professor's field, exposes the professor to real business problems, and can often lead to case studies...
...lessons of this campaign are simply a reaffirmation of some old truths about voters. young people are not to be trusted at the polls, they usually don't show up; issues and conflict tend to change people's minds while a relatively stable situation calls for a repeat performance of the last election; and most importantly, established political machines are still the best way to win elections in Cambridge. FIRST ROUND VOTES IN COUNCIL RACE Sullivan* 3730 Danehy* 2563 Duehay** 2182 Russell* 1947 Ackermann** 1928 Graham** 1728 Clinton* 1494 Stewart 1444 Vellucci* 1432 Clem** 1417 Wylie** 1101 Preusser** 1052 Frisoli...
...high bench. In any event, as you may possibly guess, Justice Snow, after suffering a heart attack, has so won his way into Justice Loomis' thought processes that she casts a vote his way in a close decision concerning some venal corporation. That is all the conflict that the drama contains, and it is pretty limp stuff...