Word: conflicted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...coastal management is that there is no single responsible Government agency. The Army Corps of Engineers comes closest, but it is often hamstrung by its dual mission: it is charged with both protecting vulnerable wetlands and keeping waterways navigable. In Louisiana, complains Environmental Lawyer Houck, when there is a conflict, the waterways win every time. This does not have to be the case, contends Bill Wooley, planning chief for the corps's Galveston office. While he concedes the task is formidable, he insists that "we can manage both. It's a matter of how much we want to spend...
...just initialed -- and how uncertain were its chances of success. For four years Sri Lanka, a teardrop of an island off India's southern coast, has been plagued by a vicious battle that has claimed more than 6,000 lives. Pitting the Sinhalese majority against the minority Tamils, the conflict has not only imperiled Jayewardene's government but threatened to drag New Delhi further into a war that it wanted...
With so many batters better than so many hurlers, the potential for conflict has been greatly increased. Eventually, there may come a time when the number of standouts is few, and the game will have a place for the Kurt Bevacquas and Bernie Carbos again...
...return to the global struggle when conditions ripened. "The No. 1 question," says James Schlesinger, "is whether Gorbachev's new thinking is intended simply to achieve a respite, a pause, so that the Soviets can repair their economy; then in ten or 15 years go back to the ideological conflict...
...perchance, some of the ideological underpinnings of that struggle are beginning to fade away, the rivalry could become far more manageable. Unlike other great international rivals, the U.S. and the Soviets have little serious conflict over commercial markets. And despite the struggle for political influence, both sides share an interest in calming certain regional disputes, like the Iran-Iraq...