Word: rift
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...ease tensions between Blacks and police and ensure fair treatment for all students, the police need to acknowledge their part in creating the rift between them and the Black community. The IOP forum discussion was a small step in the right direction. But police must do more then talk. They must convince Blacks through professional behavior that they will no longer be treated as second-class students...
...most direct evidence of the time H. erectus arrived in Asia is obviously the ages of the fossils found there. But accurate dates are elusive, especially in Java. In contrast to East Africa's Rift Valley, where the underground record of geological history has been lifted up and laid bare by faulting and erosion, most Javan deposits are buried under rice paddies. Since the subterranean layers of rock are not so easy to study, scientists have traditionally dated Javan hominids by determining the age of fossilized extinct mammals that crop up nearby. The two fossils cited in the new Science...
This is the situation in the archaeology wing of the Anthropology Department, where the wing's chair, Clay Professor of Scientific Archaeology Nikolaas J. van der Merwe, stands accused by seven female graduate students of telling sexually explicit jokes in their presence. The charges have created an enormous rift in the department between those graduate students and faculty members who side with van der Merwe--who adamantly denies that he behaved inappropriately--and those who support the accusers, most of whom have asked reporters to keep their identities secret for fear of losing their jobs or their chances at Ph.D...
Such is the sorry state of Pakistan's ruling dynasty on the 66th anniversary of the birth of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Nusrat's husband, Benazir's father and Pakistan's Prime Minister before General Zia had him hanged in 1979. The rift is not just mother against daughter, but also brother against sister. Accused of terrorism by the Zia regime, Murtaza Bhutto, 39, Nusrat's eldest son, has been in jail since November. After 16 years of exile abroad, he came home to claim a provincial seat he had won in absentia in the same elections that brought his older...
Steve Warshaw, the Penguins' vice president for marketing, admits to a "psychological rift" between the Russian side and the Americans on how to promote the team. Or more important, on how to make it self-sufficient. Nights of rinkside fun and fantasy have already cost upwards of a million dollars. On the day of a game last week, Warshaw approached Russian coach Viktor Tikhonov with a request from one of the team's sponsors, Pittsburgh's Iron City Beer, to have advertising patches put on the jerseys. Tikhonov, who is revered in Russia for his guidance of the Red Army...