Word: rift
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...lines to the Internet, ensuring that it would have the capacity to carry the volume of data--from E-mail to video clips--that Sidgmore sees as the key to growth in the telecommunications industry. Sidgmore and Ebbers spotted their chance last summer when a rift developed between MCI and BT over the price of their carefully negotiated merger because MCI's share price kept falling. Opportunity knocked the moment BT demanded a $5 billion discount off the price it had agreed to pay for MCI, which said in July that it would lose $800 million trying to break into...
Bitton joined several other fellows in opening the conflict between the Orthodox and secular communities in Israel today. As an IDF official with a strong religious background, she offered a unique perspective on the rift...
LONDON: Reports are emerging of a huge rift in the week after Diana's death between the Queen and Prince Charles, over the nature of her funeral. London's Channel 4 News said late Monday that Queen Elizabeth wanted a private funeral that would have excluded the Princess' body from Royal palaces, and refused to fly the flag at half-staff over Buckingham Palace. Prince Charles fought in his former wife's corner by resisting his mother's wishes, and a heated battle ended in his favor after Tony Blair sent in mediators. The Royals claim "the whole story...
...would not be bound by the agreement. When Armey was asked Tuesday whether he regards Gingrich as an effective leader, the Speaker's top lieutenant made for the exit, telling reporters; "Y'all have a good day now." In subsequent statements, Gingrich and Armey downplayed reports of a rift as misconstrued, but Republican sources say the relationship has become badly and possibly irreparably frayed...
...been sent to the co-op apartment in Westchester County three weeks ago to get him away from a tough crowd he was associating with in his neighborhood. Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan expressed his sympathies for Betty Shabazz, with whom he had had a 32-year rift over the assassination of her husband Malcolm X. Mrs. Shabazz, an administrator at Medgar Evers College, believed Farrakhan was partly responsible for the fatal shooting of her husband...