Word: factionalized
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Members of the HRRA allege that members who did not pay club dues voted in the election and that these non-paying voters tipped the results to the club's more conservative faction...
...other hand, embodies the principles of AI's breakaway faction, the so-called bottom-up school. Inspired more by biological structures than by logical ones, the bottom-uppers don't bother trying to write down the rules of thought. Instead they try to conjure thought up by building lots of small, simple programs and encouraging them to interact. Earlier in his career, Brooks helped put this approach on the AI map by building tiny, insectlike robots--"bugbots"--that wandered around his laboratory without the benefit of any single guiding program. Cog's "mind," similarly, is just a collection of loosely...
There is a faction at the White House, led by Harold Ickes, deputy chief of staff in charge of campaign operations, and including the First Lady, that is desperate for Clinton to embrace that message. Several Democrats are complaining that it is not considered politically correct at the White House to complain about the economy; they see this defense of the status quo as dangerous. At a Monday-night meeting last week, top Labor Department officials and other liberal Democratic operatives grumbled that the White House was blocking any attempt by Labor Secretary Robert Reich to give some voice...
...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...