Word: conflicted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...subcommittee alleged that Deaver "testified falsely" about using Administration contacts to help a number of clients. The panel charged that among the contacts Deaver failed to acknowledge were former White House National Security Adviser Robert C. McFarlane and Office of Management and Budget Director James Miller III. Under conflict-of-interest laws, Deaver, as a senior Executive Branch official, was prohibited for one year from lobbying the White House...
Lily Lee Chen sputters when she recalls a sign at a local gas station, WILL THE LAST AMERICAN TO LEAVE MONTEREY PARK PLEASE BRING THE FLAG? For Chen, the placard is testimony to a conflict that threatens to split Monterey Park, a city of about 59,000 next to Los Angeles, along ethnic lines. During the past 25 years, the Asian population has grown from 5% to 40%, and the increasingly prosperous city has been tagged the Asian Beverly Hills. But changes have bred resentment. A cultural cross fire over language -- English vs. Chinese -- has erupted in Monterey Park, with...
...feeling among women workers that good jobs conflict with family ! responsibilities, she maintains, is a rationalization many women have used when they knew the jobs would go to men anyway. Was Rosenberg letting women down by testifying for Sears? "Yes, she was," says Kessler-Harris. "Not because she chose to testify but because the argument she made in court suggested that women's differences could account for their unequal position in the labor force. That argument omits the role of employers in structuring the labor market...
...provocative. To wit: in traditional Western thought, God created humans in his own image and animals to serve mankind. This anthropocentric view dominated religion and philosophy for more than 2,000 years, and still exerts a powerful influence. But so do our animal instincts, the cause of psychological conflict and moral ambivalence...
...feeds and clothes her five young children, Madjid and the neighbor's child, as well as taking care of her husband, who has apparently had a stroke that has rendered him helpless. The contrast between Maika's helathy cheer and her husband's thin and trembling weakness portrays the conflict within the family more effectively than any verbal explanation of their condition...