Word: conflicted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...turns into something else, a thank-you made soggy by the slop-over of guilt and apology. It was scarcely surprising, then, that many Viet Nam War veterans were somewhat wary when New York City cranked up a welcome-home parade ten years after the end of the conflict...
...join, many have become so polarized that often only the most radical, rabid people join them. At Harvard, even the most conservative liberal is called a Bolshevik is called a fascist. For those who seek a more neutral atmosphere in the realm of student government, just as much conflict awaits...
...currency fluctuations, and everybody has implored Japan to open its markets to more imports. The essential aim of summits has been to try to coordinate the domestic policies of the world's major industrial nations so that one nation's targets for trade, inflation or growth are not in conflict with another's. This effort has had mixed and occasionally unforeseen results, most notably in Bonn in 1978, when the seven tried to coordinate their growth targets in a "locomotive" strategy led by Germany and Japan. The locomotive crashed into the 1979-80 oil crisis, and at later summits...
Israelis celebrating the 37th anniversary of independence the day after the pullback were gratified, on the whole, that their country's most disastrous military conflict was drawing to a close. They could also rejoice that a possible "major disaster," as Prime Minister Shimon Peres put it, had not disrupted the festivities. Peres was referring to the Israeli navy's earlier sinking of a freighter that both Israeli officials and the Palestine Liberation Organization confirmed had carried P.L.O. commandos. Their mission: to blow up a major target, believed to have been the defense ministry in Tel Aviv...
...with the program by the time the new Five-Year Plan goes into effect," an event scheduled for January. Gorbachev's preoccupation with economics took priority over foreign policy in his Central Committee address. Nonetheless, he took some hard swipes at the U.S., saying, "It constantly creates seats of conflict and war danger." But Gorbachev also prescribed a return to the vision of detente as "an example of how international relations can be built," a view that he might elaborate on during his planned visit to the United Nations in September. He sent another clear message of the Soviet Union...