Word: fractiousness
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...That was just two years ago, and you couldn't even talk about population." In contrast, the unexpected consensus in Cairo left delegates bubbling about a "watershed in world history." Timothy Wirth, the U.S. Undersecretary of State for global affairs, who earned high praise for helping guide the initially fractious group toward agreement, called the consensus a rare victory for the U.N. "It's hard enough to get 180 members of the U.S. Congress to agree on anything, much less 180 nations," Wirth pointed...
...Republicans have their own mixed blessing in the religious right. For candidates who move their way on abortion, school prayer and gay rights, conservative Christian activists can provide candidates with a base of enthusiastic supporters. In Virginia's fractious Senate race, a four-way contest in which the winner will not need 50% of the vote, they have helped give Oliver North a real shot at the seat held by Democrat Charles Robb. "North is constructing a coalition of the pious and the poff," says political scientist Robert Holsworth of Virginia Commonwealth University. "He's much more effective...
...everyone involved in the fractious debate has political ambitions. Jorge Albertini, 26, an architect who emigrated in 1980, believes his countrymen have lost the will to help themselves. "The majority of people there are used to the system taking care of them. Now that it's not, they're so concerned with the lack of food, electricity and gas that they've forgotten about the . greater goal of getting rid of Castro." Albertini wants the U.N. to impose a total blockade on Cuba, even if such a move causes heightened hardship for residents, including his grandmother and aunt. "A blockade...
...supermodels -- of Kate and Linda and Christy -- is that they are a congenial lot. Their life seems to be one long slumber party as they giggle together, exchanging their joys and disappointments, their Marlboro Lights, their Isaac Mizrahi miniskirts. But the young women signed to Models Inc. are more fractious. They slap one another around; they refer to one another as bitches. At their kindest, they share beauty secrets: hemorrhoid cream, one girl magnanimously informs another, reduces puffiness around the eyes...
...with a revolver, all he has to go on is some dubious advice from his moralizing father (Gene Hackman): put your trust in blood kin and in the law. What Earp sees in his brothers is impossible to say, since they are so poorly particularized -- and encumbered with unpleasantly fractious wives to boot. Wyatt himself tolerates a thoroughly depressing relationship with a common-law wife (Mare Winningham), as they all lurch querulously toward the legendary gunfight with another extended family at the O.K. Corral. The exact nature of the quarrel between the Earps and Ike Clanton's crowd is never...