Word: conflicted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...private and state-funded Thomson Education Center set a wide range of high-minded goals for the students who participate in the program, ranging from the development of scientific skills to cultural awareness. Fundamentally, the two-and-a half-year-old program attempts to help students from a divisive, conflict-oriented school environment learn to function as a tight-knit group and have confidence in themselves and in each other. And that is a goal that most observers believe the Thomson's Island students are achieving. As Jerome Winegar, federal court-appointed headmaster of South Boston High School, says, "There...
WASHINGTON--A Senate Committee yesterday told James R. Schlesinger '50, Secretary of Energy, to sell more than $33,000 worth of stock that he and his wife hold in an energy-related company. Members of the Energy Committee said the holdings represent a possible conflict of interest...
There would perhaps be room for complacency in all this if the policy accompanying such awesome weaponry were that of use only as a last resort or at least that of mutual assured destruction (MAD), thereby insuring what General Douglas MacArthur said of nuclear war, that any conflict at all would be a form of "double suicide...
...ever convenes, could collapse in days or continue for years. Brzezinski concedes: "A Geneva conference will not be easy, far from it. I anticipate a very difficult conference, a conference that will have its ups and downs, a conference that may be occasionally on the brink of real conflict, perhaps even suspension. Then it will...
...conflict is also apparent in her Lowell House single: her book shelves are full of the normal Harvard fare, while the signed photographs of people she's performed with--John Davidson, Zero Mostel, Joan Rives--paper her walls, along with a hat collection that started, she says, when admirers sent her various hats. Even a high grade average in Government, she says, "is not at all appropriate to the theater world...