Word: conflicted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tried to stress this year that simply passing resolutions is not effective in bringing about change. "The low point of the year was the Shavuot resolution," Lyss recalls, referring to the council's vote to call on the University to change the date of its Commencement exercise because of conflict with a Jewish holiday, Lyss says that the council, persuaded by emotional appeals from activists who were not undergraduates, passed a resolution that it knew could not be effective...
...largest of the two murals is a scene of two men fighting against a background of bright red, and represents conflict. Valtierra's grandfather came to the U.S. because he got into a fight with the son of a judge in his Mexican village and, after the man drew a knife on him, shot him. Upon arriving in the U.S. he worked for the Union Pacific railroad; was shanghaied to Alaska and was a stunt man for D.W. Griffith...
...ever done much work on the Turkey War of 1973-1979 before Michael T. Anderson '84 took up the topic. It was not a major international conflict--the war did not concern the nation Turkey, but the bird Americans eat for Thanksgiving. If they don't seem like much to fight about, then consider that the European Community started raising tariffs on turkey imports from the U.S. and made turkey farmers very upset. The ensuing trade war lasted for five years...
...Turkey War continued into the Ford Administration. On October 11, 1976 (conveniently one month before the November elections) Ford imposed a quota on EC meat imports of 1.26 million pounds. After negotiations failed to solve the poultry trade conflict. Ford on November 29, 1976 raised the tariff on $13-a-gallon brandy from $1.00 to $3.00 and the levy on $9.00 brandy from...
...Detents, Mr. Democracy, and Mr. Peaceful Resolution of Conflict," Karl commented yesterday referring to Carlos's restoration of Spanish-Soviet relations for the first time since the Spanish Civil War and his advocacy of non-intervention into Latin American affairs...