Word: fractiousness
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...were fractious and overpaid. Our mornings lacked promise. Most of us liked most everyone, a few of us hated specific individuals, one or two people loved everyone and everything. Those who loved everyone were unanimously reviled.' --PAGE 3 OF then we came to the end BY JOSHUA FERRIS
...only would it be an act of supreme cynicism for the rebels to swell their ranks with the very men accused by the U.S. of waging genocide against Darfurians, it may also be wishful thinking to imagine a united front of fractious rebel groups and Janjaweed defectors. Still, some rebel commanders believe the situation has changed dramatically as a result of actions by the International Criminal Court (ICC). Although international pressure on Khartoum has been slow in coming, with U.N. Security Council action stonewalled by China, and Sudan refusing entry to U.N. peacekeeping forces, the ICC has targeted specific leaders...
...office; the Soviet Union broke up; inflation is barely a nuisance; crime is down; and welfare is reformed. But if all that's true, what is conservatism's rationale for the next generation? What set of goals is there to hold together a coalition that has always been more fractious than it seemed to be from the outside, with its realists and its neoconservatives, its religious ground troops and its libertarian intelligentsia, its Pat Buchanan populists and its Milton Friedman free traders? That is why the challenge for Republican conservatives goes far deeper than merely trying to figure...
...international hub and an increasingly rare commitment to high-quality, free in-flight service, which have boosted ticket sales enough to lift Air France--KLM to the top of Europe's airlines, with a 25% market share. And it might make a run at ailing Alitalia, whose fractious workforce resembles that of Air France in its dark days...
...main opposition Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) are even worse than the Prime Minister's. Abe's supporters also argue that he remains relatively popular by the lackluster historical standards of most Japanese leaders, and that he hasn't received enough credit for repairing Japan's often fractious relations with its Asian neighbors. Shoichi Nakagawa, the LDP's powerful policy chief, asserts that the Abe Cabinet takes everyday issues just as seriously as it does ideological ones. "We can do constitutional reform and the economy as well," says Nakagawa. "We aren't ignoring daily matters." But Abe's critics...