Word: discords
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...ever a situation that cried out for U.N. intervention, it was Somalia. Failure here will cast a dark cloud over other U.N. operations. The U.N. mission now is to rebuild a country; if accomplished, it will be a significant achievement for humankind. Rather than using a nation's discord for territorial gain, other world powers will have saved a warand famine-stricken people...
...administration has quietly marshalled the volatile issue into committees and reports to contain a debate which once roiled the campus in fierce and angry discord. Three years of reports and responses, legal squabbles and statistics have led to tangible changes in the workings of the College's Administrative Board, which hears date rape cases. But these changes have come less from the politics of the campus and more from the inner machinery and introspection within the College administration...
Keohane, who chaired the department last year, is most well-known for his book After Hegemony: Cooperation and Discord in the World Political Economy...
...time of flux, citizens and politicians say, that will be shaped by the vicissitudes of backdoor meetings, patronage politicking and party-line discord...
...Likewise, the Syrians were probably thinking of their image when they finally took possession of an Israeli paper, which detailed areas of concord and discord between the two parties. Until now, the Syrians have said they would deal seriously with Israel only after it agrees to withdraw from the disputed Golan Heights. Certainly, Damascus was responding to U.S. pressure when it announced that it was abolishing discriminatory travel restrictions on Syria's 4,500 Jews...