Word: factious
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...best known in Episcopal circles as the executive director of the Witness, an independent magazine of the church's hard left. In its pages, she has described her own denomination as a "male-dominated racist church," castigated Episcopal "factious fathers" who fear "mitered mammas," branded as "demonic" one conservative church caucus, excoriated numerous Reagan Administration policies, and even dubbed the Gary Hart sex scandal "Tailgate...
...Haitian opposition, factious even in the best of times, is divided over what steps should be taken to achieve that goal. Some are advocating a boycott of any government-sponsored elections. Three trade unions have called for a general strike to begin this week. Many Haitians, even staunch nationalists in the slums and the posh capital suburbs, are calling for foreign intervention of some sort. A few are counseling insurrection. Says Father Jean-Bertrand Aristide, 34, a firebrand priest popular with the poor: "There is only one avenue to take, and that is revolution...
...sorrow and shock, transforming Aquino's funeral into the largest procession in the country's history. In the weeks and months that followed, street vendors and socialites, businessmen and radicals all awoke from years of resignation to cry out their rage. Yet the official opposition to Marcos remained fatally factious, divided into more than a dozen self-seeking groups, each of them tainted either by extremist positions, associations with the government or long years of failure...
...Reagan message has no doubt helped the Southern branch of the class of '80, ultraconservative Republicans with unremarkable first-term records, like Mack Mattingly of Georgia and Jeremiah Denton of Alabama. The latest polls show Mattingly leading his underfunded liberal rival, Congressman Wyche Fowler, by 18 points. The factious and disorganized Democratic Party in Alabama has been unable to help Congressman Richard Shelby wage an effective attack; he trails Denton by nearly 25 points...
...large crowds that they can get into the street, the anti-Chun forces have increasingly lost a sense of unity and purpose. Last month Kim Young Sam hastily joined the N.K.D.P. as Lee's "permanent adviser" in the hopes of restoring direction to the party. But the opposition remains factious and agendaless, and many foreign observers suspect that it may be more interested in provoking dissent than in promoting democracy...