Word: factious
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...Unable to force postponement of the election, opposition groups settled instead for a boycott-a rather futile move, since the government could announce almost any turnout that it thought appropriate. Thieu's nearly total control of the situation was evident when the frustrated and factious anti-government forces met last week to try to organize a broadly based opposition. They managed only to form a loose committee and named as its chairman General Duong Van ("Big") Minh, who dropped out of the presidential election last month charging that the vote was rigged in advance. Minh did not even bother...
...ironies for which such films strive ( Anne concluded with a pan shot of Good Queen Bess as a tot) was in Cromwell based on blatant contrivance: Cromwell the regicide was not forced during the Commonwealth to reject fawning Parliamentarians offering him a crown, though Hughes has written a totally factious scene into his screenplay precisely to that effect. The film succeeds no better as history than it has as entertainment...
...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...