Word: quarreling
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...settlement seemed threatened later in the summer, when the union called for a new election, claiming irregularities in the last balloting. City manager James L. Sullivan said he would ask the state or the courts to block the new agreement, adding he would not change his contract offer. That quarrel is not solved either...
...savage family quarrel erupts at The New Yorker...
...York Republican National Committeeman Richard Rosenbaum urged convention managers to schedule a brief tribute to Nelson Rockefeller ("We have to make room for decency in politics"), he was rebuffed. Reagan's advisers reasoned that a tribute to Rockefeller, even though he is dead, might reopen the bitter ideological quarrel...
...recent European attitude toward the Soviet Union has been so cautious as to verge on neutralism. The backdrop to the conflict between the U.S. and Europe is an old skein of misapprehensions and reproaches, failed hopes and even disappointed loves that can only be compared to an ancient family quarrel: tediously familiar, yet ever fresh in its capacity to wound. On both sides of the Atlantic, one regularly hears the ritual incantations about a joint cultural heritage. Yet America is, at most, only partly European. Besides, kith and kin are apt to have harsher conflicts than total strangers...
...conference will have to patch together some kind of further compromise. Meanwhile, the budget quarrel is delaying an extension of the time during which the Government can exceed the statutory ceiling on the national debt, needed soon if the Government is to continue paying its bills. At week's end the fractious Congress voted for an extension, but only for five days...