Word: discordant
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...when it comes to treading lightly, Bush is living up to his no-crushed-toes billing. At the post-meeting photo-op, Bush started spreading the love, calling the Fed chairman a "distinguished, thoughtful economist." And when reporters started sniffing for discord, Bush replied, "One of the things I'm certain that I should not do as President-elect is to try and put words in the mouth of Alan Greenspan...
...dogged by protesters and at which President Clinton sounded a note of caution amid a celebration of the wonders of the New Economy. Clinton had been burned only months earlier by the World Trade Organization debacle in Seattle, in which the combination of anti-globalization street protests and discord among the member states had prevented any progress in negotiating a new round of trade liberalization measures. He devoted his acclaimed speech to the need to ensure that the world's impoverished majority benefited from the promise of globalization...
...guerrillas, but that may put Western troops on a collision course with the Albanian nationalists. There's plenty of room for more fighting inside Kosovo and elsewhere in the region, and the furor in NATO over the use of depleted-uranium weapons in the Balkans may signal growing discord in the alliance...
...drive to create sibling bonds or something like them is to some experts primordial--even for an only child. Parents always have a disproportionate power over offspring, but siblings teach peer-level tolerance, loyalty and constancy--qualities that later apply to colleagues, friends and lovers. In moderation, sibling discord is useful, says psychologist Bank. "If the frustration is too great, it cripples you. But we all need a level of frustration in our lives in order to move ahead...
...time the deal was in motion, discord and age had sent several top members of Chrysler's dream team--vice chairman Bob Lutz, chief engineer Francois Castaing and manufacturing whiz Dennis Pawley--into the Detroit sunset. The demands of the merger made things worse. Meetings, transatlantic travel and continued distrust over Schrempp's intentions distracted executives in Chrysler's Auburn Hills, Mich., headquarters. Chairman Bob Eaton, who had pushed for the Daimler merger, became increasingly detached from the company's operations--but not so much that he couldn't fire Chrysler president Tom Stallkamp last year. Schrempp may not have...