Word: conflictive
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...banks," says acting Central Bank president David Amaglobeli, 32, an unflappable Oregon State University graduate, whom I meet in the central bank office, a grand old building with high ceilings and frescoes and gilt-edged windows dating from the Russian Empire. Amaglobeli's family became refugees during the Abkhazia conflict in 1992. He says the current crisis is stirring bad memories. "I remember the smell of gunfire, the smell of war in the air. It was very painful to see the loss of territory, people falling into poverty." A teenager at the time, Amaglobeli now is an adult with...
...right, it's the old Eros-Thanatos trope. But no one has addressed it with Roth's passionate realism. Or with his conviction that the result of this conflict can only be the terrible muddle that finally elbows aside the previously preoccupying sexual shambles. That's especially true of The Dying Animal, when mortality settles on the wrong person at the wrong time. There are things wrong with Coixet's movie. Ben Kingsley is, of course, a fine actor, but in this instance there seems to me something smug, held back, in his work. Roth's Kepesh, at least...
...Linda Hawes Clever, a clinical professor at the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine and a member of Medpedia's Board of Advisers, called the conflict-of-interest policies an "imperative in progress...
...Currier said that it will be easier to discover conflict-of-interest issues in an online environment, since Web media lend themselves to greater transparency...
...union; Initiative 59 bans unions that have collective-bargaining agreements with the state government from donating campaign cash. Angry union leaders have vowed to kills these measures. Professor Kenneth Bickers, chair of the political science department at the University of Colorado at Boulder, predicts "a kind of 1930s style conflict between unions and management." Bad news for civility, but good news for Obama: In 2004, union members nationwide gave 61% of their vote to John Kerry. The more union voters turn out in Colorado, the better Obama will...