Word: friction
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...undergradute concentrator, however, said Southern's resignation may also have stemmed from friction between Southern and department members, especially some junior faculty...
...Harvard's extensive real estate holding in Cambridge, however, that cause the real town-gown friction. The University owns so much land that last year it created its own real estate company. Harvard's behavior as a landlord, however, has not been particularly exemplary. The University tried to use its rights as a large real estate holder (in the Square over 20 per cent) to block a proposal to limit the height of buildings in Harvard Square. The city filed a lawsuit challenging Harvard's move...
Meanwhile, the regime at least temporarily defused a dangerous dispute with rebellious tribes in the western province of Kurdistan. The country's 4 million Kurds (out of a total population of 36 million) have long been agitating for more autonomy; since the revolution their demands have accelerated, causing friction with the Tehran government and occasional bloody clashes with its forces, most recently in the town of Marivan. TIME's Tehran bureau chief, Bruce van Voorst, visited Kurdistan and filed this report...
...diplomatic friction between Washington and Bonn eventually led to fears that Bonn's assertively independent approach, which French Pundit Raymond Aron dubbed "Gaullism in a minor key," might prove a threat to Western solidarity. The first hint that West Germany might possibly be distancing itself from NATO was delivered by a leading figure of the left wing of Schmidt's own Social Democratic Party. Just as General Alexander Haig and other NATO commanders were warning about the Soviet Union's ominous military buildup, the S.P.D.'s parliamentary floor leader, Herbert Wehner, insisted that Moscow's moves were "defensive...