Word: conflicted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...harms more than just America's scientific competitiveness. Astrology defames the whole enterprise of rationality, and threatens to warp our view of national and international problems. We cannot call an exorcist to scare the deficit away. We cannot wait for the moon to come into Jupiter to resolve the conflict in the Middle East. A pragmatic, hard-headed approach is the only thing that will save this country, and it has not been much in evidence lately...
...Jerusalem last week ABC created a sort of demilitarized zone as Ted Koppel's late-night news program, Nightline, broadcast five nights of on-the-scene shows. The topics were the recent violence in the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip, as well as other issues fueling the tragic conflict between Israelis and Palestinians. American TV once again was playing diplomat as well as journalist. And if the results were unlikely to be as dramatic as Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's 1977 trip to Jerusalem (spurred by a few well-timed questions from CBS Anchorman Walter Cronkite), the venture brought...
...dead yet. I hope the President will rethink his position and come down on the side of the American people." But the White House was counting on Congress to resubmit a bill without the plant-closing measure, and there was no sign of a quick resolution to the conflict. Said Senator John Danforth, a Missouri Republican: "I believe that this bill is dead...
...income to help pay for its 7 1/2- year-old war with fellow OPEC member Iraq, heartily endorsed the 5% solution. But Hisham Nazer, the influential Saudi Arabian minister, was cool to the proposal. His country's severing of diplomatic ties with Iran last week after years of conflict with its Persian Gulf neighbor did not help matters...
...topic of negotiation as a means ofresolving conflict will be covered by Babbitt.Babbitt said she will look at differentstrategies, how perceptions and misperceptions ofthe opposing group affects talks and hownegotiations break down...