Word: discordant
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...from his colleagues and his legacy speaks for itself. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1961 and began teaching here in 1985. He served as chair of the Government Department from 1988 until 1992. He is the author of such acclaimed works as After Hegemony: Cooperation and Discord in the World Political Economy and International Institutions and State Power, as well as the editor, co-editor or co-author of 11 other books...
...even feasible for members of some traditions for whom Harvard has provided no adequate facilities. And the risks of sincere encounter between systems of meaning and value that have so often exploded in violence can seem too high--who wants to replay the age-old patterns of sectarian discord in a Yard rooming group or a sleepy section or a new romance...
Present barriers to the spread of markets include discord in Bosnia and the Middle East, the proliferation of nuclear weapons, the recent Mexican economic crisis, unstable democracies in central and eastern Europe and even the missing Vietnam prisoners of war. Peace promotes prosperity; democracy promises dollars. That is why we have a foreign policy based upon the spread of "universal" values of free societies and free markets. That, Christopher says, is what will lead the world into "a second American century...
...rather lose by discord than win by this narrow victory. In the next few weeks, the federal government will cut Quebec social payments, welfare and health coverage.... The next referendum in six to seven years will be a victory," he said...
...with a bat, threatened him with a gun and beaten him until his lip split open. How likely is it that juror Brenda Moran would have called looking at this evidence "a waste of time," or that Johnnie Cochran would have been able to wave it away as "domestic discord" and a sign that his client was "not perfect...