Word: quarrelling
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...before the U.S. Supreme Court. December's lead piece attacked the environmentalists in their long-running dispute with Consolidated Edison over location of a power plant in the Hudson River Valley. The November cover featured National Review Editor and Yale-man William F. Buckley Jr.'s latest quarrel with his alma mater, over its insistence on presenting "all sides" of "any issue...
...rift turned into unbridgeable chasm among the Congress leadership last week, many Indians were accusing Mrs. Gandhi of ruthlessly sacrificing the party that had ruled India uninterruptedly from 1947 to 1977. The immediate beneficiaries of Congress's quarrel were Prime Minister Desai and his Janata Party, which had overwhelmingly profited in the March elections from Mrs. Gandhi's soaring unpopularity. Most observers believed that Congress would gradually regain much of its former strength after it scuttled Mrs. Gandhi and renounced her dictatorial ways. But as the February elections approach in four states traditionally ruled by Congress, the party...
Well, I suddenly found all the parties concerned-Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Israel-starting to quarrel and differ on the procedural papers. Syria said that if this is an American paper, it is a colonial and imperialist paper. If it is an American-Israeli paper, well, it is colonial, Zionist, imperialist-all these descriptions. I felt also, when President Assad sent a special envoy to me, that Syria was not serious at all about going to Geneva. The Soviet Union was starting its own tricks with the Syrians and with the Palestinians...
...plugged the glories of America and the new Panama Canal treaty, and reserved the right to gentlemanly argument just as soon as they parted. Indeed, that night, as Jimmy jitterbugged at a White House press party, the tuxedoed Ford in another part of town found a few things to quarrel over in the Carter record. Yet when Jerry flew off to Vail for the holidays, he complimented Carter on his graciousness and explained that political differences did not intrude in their "friendly relationship." Harry Truman and Dwight Eisenhower did not speak for more than eight years; Richard Nixon and John...
...more basic reason for the dollar's plunge is a deepening quarrel between the U.S. and its trading partners, West Germany and Japan, over what to do about the soaring U.S. trade deficit. By year's end the deficit is expected to total a stunning $27 bil lion, nearly five times last year's figure. Both Japan and West Germany maintain that the deficit is the result of wanton U.S. consumption of imported oil and that Washington must adopt an energy program that reduces U.S. de pendence on OPEC. The Carter Administration argues that it is doing...