Word: schism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard Business School Professor Alfred D. Chandler Jr. traces the origins of the schism in the American system to the late 19th century, when large enterprises, notably the railroads, often ignored the interests of local communities. The citizens of these communities began looking to the Federal Government as a brake on economic barons. Since World War II, this process has gone wild. Richard G. Darman and Laurence E. Lynn Jr. of the J.F.K. government school estimate that 40% of all decisions involving corporate capital investment now are determined by considerations other than profits or the best interests of shareholders...
...schism between old line Independents--the ethnic and neighborhood conservatives--and liberal Cambridge Civic Association (CCA) politicians was as deep as ever after the election, but the balance between the two groups may have shifted subtly...
...main ideological adversary. Berlinguer's colleagues insisted that his trip was merely an attempt to resume normal relations with the Chinese party, which were cut off in 1962. Nonetheless, the visit was not only a slap at the Kremlin but also a vivid demonstration of the deep schism that has been widening down the middle of the movement once called Eurocommunism...
...wing. Most of all, his independent stance could lead to "a formal disowning of the Italian Communist Party by the Soviets," as Columnist Vittorio Gorresio wrote in Turin's influential daily La Stampa. Combined with Berlinguer's other heresies, such an outright break could lead to a schism within the Italian Communist party-and a strong challenge to his leadership...
...even smaller (pop. 2,997), is bracing for what could prove to be, if events take the darkest of turns, the final true Olympics. The sad truth is that the political pressures that have always borne so heavily on the Olympic Games today threaten to open an irreparable schism in world sport (see ESSAY...