Word: discord
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...discord among the students became evident when many walked out of the meeting. Many expressed exasperation with what they viewed as the lack of direction of the meeting. The students "got bogged down in superfluous side issues," one of the students who left the meeting said...
...DEFUSE DISCORD POLICY), and upscale ads (for Nonwit Teller, Bloomindale's, Eve Saint Laurent's new Heroine perfume, and one white space labeled "This ad stolen by the New York Post...
Each story discussed the church as well as the man, chronicling emerging theology and internal discord as well as papal deeds. We always tried, however, to find the detail or anecdote that would humanize each Bishop of Rome for our readers. Thus we reported that Pope Pius XI, a scholar, took special delight in mechanical contraptions and gladly accepted the gift of a dictating machine from Thomas Edison. The ascetic Pope Pius XII allowed a pet goldfinch, named Gretel, to perch on his arm each morning as he shaved. And on busy days in his office, the formal Pope Paul...
Courts have long limited the right of children to sue their parents because such suits would sow discord in the family. But nearly a score of states, including California, Illinois and New York, have chipped away at the "intrafamily tort immunity" rule, largely to allow children to sue parents in auto accident cases. A child who has reached majority may sue his parents for a wrong that may have occurred during his minority, and in such cases the statute of limitations does not start to run until majority is reached. Suits on such vague grounds as Hansen's. however...
Meanwhile discord erupted at the opening of the newly elected National Assembly last week. At issue was the job of President of the Assembly-a post roughly equivalent to Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. Traditionally, the position should have gone to the chosen candidate of the Assembly's leading political party-in this case, the Gaullists, who won 25 more seats in parliament than Giscard's Union pour la Démocratic Française. Instead, there was a dramatic contest over the presidency involving Gaullist Leader Jacques Chirac and Giscard. Chirac's candidate, incumbent...