Word: factious
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...necessarily have the full support of the coalition which removed DeGuglielmo. At the last minute, the mercurial Vellucci might balk at letting an "outsider" come in to run the City. The new manager will face the task of working with men whom DeGuglielmo termed "live, red-blooded (and often factious) politicians...
Wilson has been able to paper over the cracks of disunity in his factious party, while at the same time focusing attention on issues--like Rhodesia or defense--which divide the Conservatives. Britain may not like Wilson but it admires...
Haggling is a way of life in the Middle East, but the oil-rich nations there have made it a disciplined science. Historically factious, they have united in a new and powerful outfit that is out to break once and for all the tradi tional fifty-fifty split of oil profits between governments and companies. The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, as the group calls itself, last month demanded a 58% share of the profits for their governments in negotiations with the eight major oil companies operating in the Middle East. Since the new split would cost oil companies...
This time the quarrel was between a portion of Argentina's factious military, who control the government, and the hapless civilians who serve them. In an angry, 2,500-word memo to his colleagues in the armed forces. General Enrique Rauch, who took over last month as Interior Minister, attacked the whole shaky structure of Argentina's government, from the ministries on down. In Rauch's view, the handling of economic policy was inept, numerous shysters from the Frondizi regime still infested top ranks of government, public opinion was misinformed, and scores of "economic criminals" were conspiring...
...raft of new reforms before the July 7 elections. Instead of compromise and cooperation, today's Argentina seems only to invite collisions of extremes. As one Argentine sociologist put it: "There is no community in Argentina. We form a conglomeration. Instead of life, Argentina has rancorous, factious chaos, periodically illuminated by coups...