Word: conflicted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...conflict is between a notion of private responsibility opposing the rules of the state," Schall said...
After receiving his PhD. from Harvard in 1971, Masson accepted a position in the University of Toronto's Sanskrit Department. But when Masson became embroiled in a conflict with the department head, the incoming president of the university decided to settle the matter by dissolving the department. Still in Toronto, however, Masson became involved in psychoanalysis, and in a relatively short time managed to climb to some of the highest peaks of the profession. He became close friends with Kurt Eissler, the director of the Sigmund Freud Archives, a vast repository of Freudiana and the bastion of Freudian orthodoxy...
...Ayatullah, "and neither America nor any other power can keep him in office." Maybe not. But what is worrying is that neither the U.S. nor any other power may be able to prevent two bitter enemies from turning their particularly vicious regional war into a theater of international conflict. -By William E. Smith...
Relations with South Africa could provide one of the sharpest areas of conflict between the House and Senate. The House bill would bar U.S. citizens and companies from making new investments in South Africa because of its apartheid policy and would forbid American banks to lend money to the Pretoria government. In addition, the House voted to require all American businesses in South Africa employing more than 20 people to desegregate their work places, recognize labor unions, and offer equal pay to blacks and whites who do the same work...
...been offering selected colleges its new machine, which retails for $2,495, for resale to students at a price of just over $1,000. Two dozen universities, including Harvard, Yale and Stanford, accepted Apple's terms, ordering more than 50,000 computers. But Cal Poly, citing a conflict with the state's competitive-bidding requirements, had balked, eventually losing out on the limited-time proposal...