Word: conflicted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...society is all about. I don't think you always have to agree with the person you are negotiating with. What you need is a common interest. And it is a common interest between the free world and the unfree world that the two shall never come into warlike conflict...
...country in crisis. It was Labor, however, that had presided over many of the country's frequent economic crises in the 1960s and '70s. By the time Thatcher arrived in 1979, Britain was saddled with a costly welfare state in which labor- management relations were mired in class conflict and industry was aging and inefficient. Since then, Thatcher has transformed Britain more dramatically than any Prime Minister since Clement Attlee, who presided over the creation of the welfare state in the late 1940s. Her third term is likely to be an extension of the Thatcher revolution. Since Britain began pulling...
...story of the strains accompanying the process of assimiliation of an ethnic group. In other situations and in other times students of other non-English ethnicities have felt torn between the desires for assimiliation and social mobility and the need to identify with their ethnic group. For most, this conflict is predominantly internal. For Black students, the battle is external as well, involving the daily, Herculean labor of confronting a broader university population which in one breath insists that Blacks relinquish their blackness (whatever that means and whatever bit they still have) and in another claims knowledge and understanding...
...principle of governance. I think power has to be a function of what is being governed and the time one devotes to these issues and also I think to the level of maturity. All I meant to say with that particular remark is that there's a conflict of interest. If you're in a place for four years, you might make the decision the consequences of which don't touch you at all and could have a slight conflict of interest...
Medical schools went through debates similar to the current B-School conflict 10 to 15 years ago, according to Edwards, who says that every medical school in the country now includes at least one ethics course in its curriculum. "It's impossible to practice good medicine without practicing ethical medicine," says Kenneth J. Ryan, Ladd professor of obstetrics and gynecology, who is one of the senior ethics fellows...