Word: frayed
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Despite the specific political and social history that surrounds the Persian Gulf, scholars who study a variety of regions have added their thoughts to the fray. Given the increasing study of international conflict as a discipline in itself, this kind of collaboration is no surprise...
...addition of Israel to the already escalating fray in the Middle East threatens to complicate relations among the coalition opposing Iraq, scholars said. That alliance, led by the United States, includes several Arab nations that have not recognized Israel's sovereignty and might not be willing to become allies with the nation, Wright explained...
This time around, even Secretary of the Interior Manuel Lujan jumped into the fray. Citing hundreds of angry letters and calls from citizens, Lujan said he wanted to keep the Yosemite Park and Curry concessionaire in the hands of Americans. MCA will be given a year to find an American buyer...
...immense loss of life that will result; initial estimates indicate that an invasion of Kuwait will cause hundreds of thousands of deaths, even without the use of poison gas. We will not suffer the consequences of a regional escalation of the conflict; if Israel is drawn into the fray, the entire Middle East could soon be at war, perhaps nuclear war, and deaths could run to the millions...
...annual meeting in Washington last week the National Conference of Catholic Bishops also joined the Columbus fray, in a pastoral letter on the evangelization of the Americas. The text acknowledged that indigenous Americans' encounter with Europeans was "harsh and painful." Nonetheless, the bishops went on, "the effort to portray the history of the encounter as a totally negative experience in which only violence and exploitation of the native peoples were present is not an accurate interpretation of the past...