Word: conflicted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While Mrs. Aquino remains an important symbol of the spiritual purity and moral tenor of the new regime, she seems unable to clean out the stables. Political opportunists continue to jockey for position and to exploit every conflict within her government...
...been more than 30 years since the Boardand the corporation have stood in direct conflict,as they would on the divestment issue if AAA hadits way. When Warburg professor of EconomicsEmeritus John Kenneth Galbraith's tenurenomination arrived on the overseers, desks, theBoard balked saying he was communist. Although theproposed tenure had been successfully sent throughnormal channels, awaiting only the Board'scustomary approval, members agreed to exercisetheir long-standing right to deny facultyappointments. The administration was appalled...
...currently better known for her life than for her art. For the film of Out of Africa was itself a masque. The romantic figure played by Meryl Streep was a woman of action. In fact, the writer was a great solitary who tried to work out every moral conflict at her desk, in tales, letters or learned analyses. In 1923-24, for example, she made her famous and tortured marriage to Bror Blixen and her doomed affair with Denys Finch Hatton the subjects of a brief, piercing look at Eros from the inside. Scrutinizing the relation of morality to marriage...
...with the activist environmental groups," says David Morine, TNC's head of land acquisitions. "We stay away from all that and get along with everybody." The organization has even extended an olive branch to developers, a group that most environmentalists consider the enemy. "We are not in conflict with developers," says TNC's new president Frank Boren, himself a former real estate executive. "We have worked with them and even lent them money...
...course, General Education 174, "Coping with International Conflict," was to be taught by Professor of Law Roger D. Fisher and Lecturer on Law Bruce M. Patton...