Word: discordances
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...Clearly, something is in play besides mere genes, and that something is environment. Raise a child in a steady and stable home, and you reduce the odds that the illness will gain a toehold, which is why counselors work hard to teach parents and kids how to minimize family discord...
...days after the Oval Office meeting, discord struck again. This time, Secretary of State Colin Powell asked Treasury secretary Paul O'Neill about his tour of Africa, which made front-page news largely because of O'Neill's travel companion, Irish rock star Bono. Again, Natsios grew upset, asserting his agency's prerogative to manage U.S. foreign economic assistance. At another point, Natsios told a group gathered for one of Powell's morning staff meetings that Bush wanted AID to handle foreign...
...discord suggests that the ongoing campaign in Afghanistan runs the risk of exacerbating ethnic tensions and warlord rivalries, which, in turn, work to the enemy's advantage. Shah-i-Kot has been the biggest battle of the war so far, but it's unlikely to be the last. Locals suspect that a number - U.S. commanders say it's less than 100 - of al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters escaped Shah-i-Kot, and the Pentagon has warned that numerous pockets of al-Qaeda and Taliban fighters are dotted across southern Afghanistan. And with ethnic tensions on the rise, even...
Canadian Hockey Association President Bob Nicholson did his best to patch the discord created by the controversy with a message of unity...
...doesn’t stand for “harried,” but the current relationship between Summers and the department does seem to be plagued with problems. Some of the discord comes from Summers’ stance on diversity and affirmative action, the release of a “rap” CD by Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West ’74, West’s affiliation with the Rev. Al Sharpton’s presidential run, grade inflation in West’s course Afro-American Studies 10: “Introduction to African-American...