Word: faction
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have no other purpose than to portray me, being a white male, as an ignorant, bigoted, racist. We're all on the same team here. I realize race relations have been adversarial in the past, but the solution is not to direct society's animosity toward a different faction of the population. All of our efforts to create a society truly free from racism are for nought as long as this adversarial system of race relations persists. GREGORY S. NOVAK '00 March...
Despite the enthusiasm of the union'sleadership, a small faction of its members havevoiced opposition to the negotiation process...
More and more, whether because of what movies are made or how they are marketed (or both), movie-going audiences seem to divide into two distinct camps, the art-house faction and the block-buster crowd. The two species have specific and trackable behavior patterns that make differentiation easy...
...house faction sort of reverse-hibernates through much of the warmer months, but they become much easier to find in the bleak of winter, when they brave all manner of snow and ice to see films about angst set amidst the very same snow and ice. This month alone, we have films about a schoolbus crashing in the snow, a town struck by an ice storm and Emma Thompson as a widow who takes pictures of snow and ice. No kidding; these folks can be a chilly bunch...
...character of the leadership will try to reach out to people in every faction of campus, not just progressive groups but certainly including progressive groups," Stewart said, describing her vision of the Council as "less stressful and factious...