Word: discordant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...everything there is a season. And on Capitol Hill, where legislators are eager to reap the rewards of passing landmark health-care legislation, this is the season to sow -- discord, that is. Currently, five Senate and House committees, each with jurisdiction over health-care legislation, are jostling over the details of "purchasing alliances," "payroll taxes" and "employer mandates," all in an effort to invent the plan that will eventually supplant the Clintons' hopelessly complicated 1,342-page proposal. The lawmakers all know the President is intractable on only one point: universal coverage. Each senses that the American public will balk...
Incidentally, my rooming group for next year will likely contain two Asians, two Hispanics, one Black and one Caucasian. But in the interest of furthering your relentless search for racial discord. I kindly request that you overlook this trivial detail. Kenneth...
There is a long history of mistrust and apprehension on the part of both Palestinians and Israelis. It would seem that the leaders of both sides have finally shown themselves willing to work to put much of this discord behind them...
...road back from Black/Jewish discord to Black/Jewish concord and alliance demands this kind of humanistic boldness. It requires this kind of simple decency from broad segments of today's African-American student population...
...speaking with one voice on adopting anti-crime measures. The Omnibus Crime Bill which is making its way through Congress calls for stiffer prison sentences and the building of more prisons, measures which the Heymann Report describes as counterproductive. Heymann may have been a victim of this discord between the White House and the Justice Department...