Word: rift
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...demands,'' she countered by slapping him with a $6 million lawsuit. But now composer and actress are practically humming in harmony, having settled their differences for an undisclosed sum--reported to be $1.5 million. Dunaway said she was pleased they were able to ``patch up a very painful public rift,'' and Lloyd Webber lauded her as ``an extraordinary talent.'' A happy ending for both, even if they are riding off into different sunsets...
...Growing Rift...
Yesterday's debate also highlighted a growing rift between small property owners and landlords...
...Bosnian Serbs -- the Pentagon was urging Clinton to cut his losses and compromise with the Serbs. Aides to Secretary of Defense William Perry warned him that NATO was being torn apart over Bosnia, and the Administration's demands for air strikes on Bihac had only deepened the rift. The Joint Chiefs of Staff advised that no military threats from NATO would bring the Serbs to a political settlement. According to a position paper classified secret, prepared for Perry and obtained by TIME, "we should recognize that nothing about Bosnia is worth a serious split with our NATO allies...
...deep ran the rift that the traditionally conservative Dean Robert C. Clark, booed at graduation ceremonies in 1992, opened the fall of the '92-93 academic year with a call to peace and healing. Neither students nor faculty had been left entirely untouched by the bloodletting which reached its peak the previous spring. Ultimately, there was nothing to do but try to begin things anew...