Word: rift
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...which, at the moment, is at loggerheads with the four other labor units in the MTC--Local 103 of the electrical workers, Local 12 of the plumbers, the District Council of Carpenters, and District Council 35 of the painters. Harvard is watching the situation closely in hopes that the rift will be healed before the MTC contract is up and negotiations begin. Powers would like to have to deal with only one set of demands...
When she first came to work in Chinatown, May was leery about the reception waiting for her. "There's a rift between the kids that grew up in the suburbs and the ones that grew up in Chinatown," she says. "I'm considered Western to them. And it's hard to be a college student there. The community naturally feels exploited by students that come in and use them for projects and term papers, and then leave. You have to prove you're committed. For that reason I won't take on any responsibilities unless I'm positive...
...find it extraordinary that he managed never to mention his secretary of state, although I do not think this signifies a terrible rift between Ford and Kissinger...
...have found him the most responsive and open of the four. I do not understand why an employee of his office much less one who is neither an alumnus nor a number of the faculty, should suggest--and thereby help to create--a kind of rift which seems far from evident to many of us who stand closer to the academic scene. If I presumed to offer any advice, it would simply be that Mr. Bok pay no attention to Mr. Bernays, fire some of his functionaries, and follow his own decent instincts. Harry Levin Babbit Professor of Comp...
...think, is Peter Zurkow as the perpetually befuddled queen, a well-meaning though not very intelligent Edith Bunker of a monarch who wants to turn back from her escape because she forgot to turn the stove off, and who pours the royal treasury's last gold into a rift in the earth because she's "always been generous to a fault...