Word: faction
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...That is the conventional image of Hamas, and these attacks, the first since last August, suggested it was conducting business as usual. In fact, the bombings revealed an organization that is divided, searching for a means of remaining relevant as the Israeli-Palestinian peace process moves forward. While one faction within Hamas took responsibility for the first two bombs, another denied it. Even those who claimed responsibility offered Israel a kind of truce. But within days it was broken. The bombings, deadly as they were, carried a paradoxical message: While Hamas can still kill, its unity has been shaken...
...York magazine political columnist Jacob Weisberg formed the nucleus of the stay-put group. "We have warmth, coffee and the means of mass communication," he explained. "I'm waiting." His faction included humorist Dave Barry, who suspected a plot to keep the quadrennial revenue stream flowing one more...
...other hand, there is still plenty of momentum for Buchanan, whose active faction of supporters have donated large sums of campaign funding and plan to keep him in the race for the long haul...
...intense loyalty of his faction of the party was evident yesterday, according to Buchanan's sister Bay, who said volunteers from across the country helped contact Republicans to encourage them to vote in the primary...
Most of the new act deals with deregulating competition in the newspaper, television, cable and telephone businesses. But our focus will be the bill's indecency provision. Pushed through congress by a small faction of conservative Republicans, with Representative Henry J. Hyde at the vanguard, the provision mandates fines and prison terms for those who make "indecent" material available to minors. Even Newt Gingrich did not support this measure. The flaws inherent in this bill become apparent during a straightforward examination of the phrase make indecent material available to minors...