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Word: quarreling (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Good individuals in the Physics Department kept me here," he says. "And the students are fun to teach. My quarrel is with the teachers. I've given up looking for good institutions...

Author: By Jean Gauvin, | Title: They Never Left the Harvard Nest | 6/4/1990 | See Source »

Over the past year such violent Mohawk vs. Mohawk clashes have become commonplace on the 28,000-acre St. Regis reservation, as a bitter quarrel over lucrative casino operations has escalated into a virtual civil war. Heavily armed pro- and antigambling factions have battled for control of the main road through the reservation, which straddles the border between upstate New York and Canada's Quebec and Ontario provinces. Last week the fighting reached a new and bloody peak: thousands of shots were exchanged in a three-hour gun battle that left two dead. Hundreds of New York State troopers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mohawks, Money and Death | 5/14/1990 | See Source »

...flunked the theoretical parts of the final exam, he was given a special exam without those parts. He was one of two students for whom this was done that year, and the common denominator in their case is not family (the other man was not a Pulliam) but a quarrel between the department head and the teacher of political theory over the size and kind of assignments given in the course. The two students had dropped the class when there were protests that the teacher, newly arrived from Harvard, had too long a reading list, protests the department head energetically...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DAN QUAYLE: Late Bloomer | 4/23/1990 | See Source »

...family quarrel; the wounds will heal," says Democratic state chairman Bob Slagle. That comment might have been on target if the family were named Manson and a miracle blood-clotting drug were discovered before the November election. The Texas primary demonstrates once again the difference between the two parties, as do crucial gubernatorial races in California and Florida. While the G.O.P. generally adheres to its eleventh commandment -- Never speak ill of another Republican -- Democrats eat their own with relish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sunbelt Mud Slides | 4/23/1990 | See Source »

...would accuse Bush of invading Panama merely to prove his manhood. (Although after Grenada, the Falklands and now this, an early mini-war is probably turning into a standard expectation for future Western leaders.) In fact, it is hard to quarrel with the invasion's success...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Speak Softly and Carry a Cage | 1/22/1990 | See Source »

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