Word: conflicted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bonfire of the Vanities," is about to enter its 27th week on the bestseller list. The novel, Wolfe's first, exposes the shallow values of a New York bond broker--and may have particular relevance to the lives of graduating seniors, said Schwalbe. The novel "talks to the conflict between social conflict and yuppie careers," she said...
...Arab unity. The Arab position is much more clear than it has ever been. What we are talking about now is an international conference of all the parties to the conflict. An invitation will go to the P.L.O. as the representative of the people of Palestine. Jordan will attend as a sovereign state. We are ready to attend in a joint delegation with Palestinians...
While peace means different things to different people, no one in Pantasma seems to feel that the conflict should continue until victory is claimed by either side. "We want peace because we want to be free," says Omar Cruz, a farmer. "In a war, no one is free...
While the conflict is only one factor in Nicaragua's economic decline in recent years, an end to the fighting would probably result in an immediate, if small, increase in agricultural production. And for hundreds of thousands of campesinos in contested areas where the gun is king, peace would remove a lot of fear from their lives. "Farmers are often too frightened to work their lands properly," says Cruz, who has had crops and animals taken by the guerrillas. "And what is the point of producing things that get blown up by land mines on the way to market...
...Soviet Union, with its population of 282 million, represents by far the most tempting future marketplace in the East bloc, even though Soviet and U.S. business interests still conflict in many ways. The Soviets are primarily interested in producing goods that they can export to the West in exchange for hard currency. They hope to find an American partner, for instance, to manufacture their designer fashions, some of which were shown at the Dallas Apparel Mart in March. But like the clothes, many of the products they want to make are already produced in abundant quantities elsewhere. Meanwhile, their Western...