Word: fractious
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...need to tell the people that an act of war has been committed. This is a different kind of enemy than we have ever faced, and they need to know that." That day, he also moved quickly to pre-empt any possibility of a replay of the fractious congressional debate before the Persian Gulf War, though such a debate was wholly unlikely, given the galvanic effect of the terrorist acts. He demanded authorization of war powers before Congress could demand the right to supply one. Within two days, both houses had given it to him. On Thursday Bush fell into...
...silver, rolls of embroidered silk and taffeta, gold vases and scented oil - were offered in scrupulously identical lots. The offerings and the stela, erected by Zheng He on his third trip to the island, were failed bids at diplomacy. When his efforts were frustrated by the fractious locals, too busy fighting each other to pay adequate obeisance to the admiral, he invaded and captured one of their warrior leaders. Today religious and ethnic conflict rage on: an 18-year civil war has claimed more than 60,000 lives. But it is the date on the tablet - February 15, 1409 - that...
...behind the Dallas arena and Victory cleanup is Ross Perot Jr., 42, CEO of Hillwood Development Co. and son of the former presidential hopeful. Perot rammed the project through a fractious Dallas political scene, getting the EPA and Texas regulators onboard even before taxpayers in 1998 approved (by just 1,642 votes out of 125,000) a tourist tax to raise $125 million for the planned $225 million arena. The price tag soared to $420 million thanks to such amenities as recessed lighting, terrazzo mosaic floors, barbecue grills and ramps graded for easy elephant access. "We got carried away," Perot...
...Vietnam on a mission of mercy that will degrade them; a new scene with Kurtz, in which he puts Willard in a cage and reads from a TIME article about the war; and a long, ghostly reverie set on a French plantation. There Willard finds a fractious old colonial family and is seduced by a young widow (the ever beautiful Aurore Clement...
...Still, Megawati's presidency is a product of that very backroom intrigue she shuns. Her family may have been ousted from power by Suharto, but it remained part of Jakarta's fractious political and economic elite. The very same coalition of forces that united to keep her out of the top job after the 1999 election have now united to elevate her. Little is known of her political thinking beyond a broad echo of her father's nationalism. It's a nationalism strongly supported by the military, a nationalism that doesn't easily tolerate federalism or secession, which suggests...