Word: quarreling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...think that the next session of the Communist Party Congress, scheduled for April, will bring change. We know that there are deep divisions, and if the younger reform faction fails -- I don't believe it will -- then there would be an open party quarrel. Most of the army commanders and most of the province leaders are with the reform faction...
...incident, of course, sent the campus into convulsions of protest and indignation. At a nationally publicized "Rally Against Hate," Dartmouth President James O. Freedman '57 denounced the Review for its "moral cowardice" and "vicious hatred." He continued his quarrel with the Review on the Op-Ed page of the New York Times, calling the journal an "instrument of intimidation...
...apartment building in the Highbridge section of the Bronx. His mother Esther scooped up the bleeding child and ran down five flights of stairs and into the street screaming, "They shot my baby! They shot my baby!" Within the hour Rayvon was dead, the innocent victim of a pointless quarrel involving a neighbor's caricature on a T shirt...
...world at large is not in the habit of regarding the German question as a laughing matter. The pundits view it with the utmost gravity; they can, of course, draw on abundant evidence from the past to justify their alarm. It is not for me to quarrel with their pronouncements, but what they fail to see is the ludicrous side of German events. I should like to redress the balance. Granted that the opening of the Berlin Wall was a moment of high drama, but the consequences turned into low comedy almost overnight...
...divisions run by his brother have prospered under a low-key leadership, newspapers and cable franchises tend to be de facto monopolies, while magazines and books must battle for attention in an increasingly crowded market and thus must be aggressive to survive. In any case, it is hard to quarrel with the results. As the family fortune has soared, the magazine and book divisions have contributed their share. Random House, bought for $70 million in 1980, went on a spree of acquisition and expansion into the global market and is deemed by financial analysts to be worth perhaps $1.5 billion...