Word: discordance
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...look at what could enhance our military and provide the young men and women [with] the training they deserve." She insists that the panel wants to continue integrating women more deeply into the armed forces. However, she argues, current policies have only the appearance of integration while sowing discord and anxiety in the ranks, a condition that hampers female advancement...
They weren't the only ones. In February a FORTUNE article documented the unfolding family discord. Vulture investors began buying up stakes and pressing a sale or spin-off of Dow Jones Markets (estimated 1996 sales: $833 million). One investor, Michael Price of Franklin Mutual Advisers, snapped up 6% of Dow Jones and vociferously pushed for a sale of the whole company...
...Cruise missile attacks don?t really hurt Saddam," Thompson says. "They?re a survivable military action.? Worse still, if they fail to change Saddam?s behavior, the White House could be forced to raise the stakes by attacking the military facilities Iraq has continually denied them access to ? risking discord in the international alliance. Which is, of course, exactly what Saddam is looking for. If only he would shoot down the U-2, it would certainly expedite matters...
...They're ferociously played by diminutive Holly Hunter and massive Delroy Lindo, and Gabriel (Dan Hedaya) has sent them back to Earth to bring these crazy kids together. If these dysfunctionals can be made to function in harmony, there is hope, he thinks, for a world riven by romantic discord. Well, why not? A little dollop of Here Comes Mr. Jordan or Stairway to Heaven never hurt anyone--except that these seraphs have a mean streak unknown to their more beamish movie predecessors...
...York Times. "The most beautiful building in America," retorted Critic Emily Genauer in the New York Herald Tribune. "A building that should be put in a museum to show how mad the 20th Century is," editorialized the New York Daily Mirror... Thus in a babel of discord, and six months after his death, Frank Lloyd Wright's last major work, the $3,000,000 Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum...opened to the public last week... What first visitors saw, as they walked through the newly opened doors, was a huge, sudden space that swirled breathtakingly to the high dome. This, they...