Word: fractious
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...more interesting take. He considers the '60s, for all their noise and flash, comparatively inconsequential. "But the 'social' transformation of the 1970s was real and was permanent," he says. It left a country more dynamic, tolerant, socially equal and sexual, but also less literate, less polite and almost infinitely fractious...
...immediately headed off the violent reaction in the streets by naming Megawati as his deputy. But while he's almost improbably acquired the support of the military against Wiranto, keeping the generals on board could prove a tough challenge. With separatist and religious violence threatening to break apart the fractious archipelago state, the military remains the only truly national institution binding together disparate islands whose only point in common is a history of colonization by the Dutch. And many generals remain wary of Wahid's attempts to rein in the military and seek political rather than security solutions...
...removed from command of the armed forces and promoted to security minister following Wahid's election last summer, the general who orchestrated the former dictator Suharto's resignation two years ago remains a powerful figure - particularly among a military desperate to maintain its prestige and control over the increasingly fractious nation...
...Army of offering an utterly transparent view of their behind-the-scenes maneuvers - and no one in their right mind would ever want the military to share all its secrets. Sometimes, however, the public's right to know and the military's need for privacy meet at a fractious crossroads. Such is the case with Gary Harris, a civilian employee at Utah's Tooele chemical weapons plant, who appeared Tuesday at the National Press Club, claiming he was forced by Army officials to falsify environmental records during the course of his work in order to hide health and safety flaws...