Word: sowing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...these arrangements can also sow tension and slow progress, because they tend to unite friends and foes alike in potentially uncomfortable situations. Bell Atlantic and U S West are building separate electronic highways, for example, even as the two firms are allied in a project to provide wireless phone service. Time Warner and TCI are archrivals, yet they have teamed with Sega of America to form the Sega Channel, which could go out over the companies' superhighways. Entanglements like these have given rise to a new term: coopetition. Notes communications consultant Jeffrey Kagan: ``It can be very difficult to share...
...orchestrated, high-priority program operating from the FBI to destabilize black organizations that were involved in the civil-rights movement and African-American liberation struggle. This was to be done by planting agent provocateurs, providing false documents and sending bogus letters to the heads of various organizations that would sow the seeds of conflict . . . in order to effectively destabilize them...
...view, would push what many Russians still see as an anti-Moscow alliance right up against the borders of the old Soviet Union. Said Yeltsin: "Europe, not having yet freed itself from the heritage of the cold war, is in danger of plunging into a cold peace. Why sow the seeds of mistrust?" The Russian President also accused Washington of overweening arrogance in playing the role of sole superpower. In his words, "It is a dangerous delusion to suppose that the destinies of continents and the world community in general can somehow be managed from one single capital...
...Budapest, Hungary, welcomed the kick off of the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty with a schedule for scuttling 9,000 U.S. and former Soviet nuclear warheads by the turn of the century, Boris Yeltsin complained about NATO's vote last week to consider membership for former Warsaw Pact nations. "Why sow the seeds of distrust?" Yeltsin rhetorically asked. "After all, we are no longer enemies. We are all partners." He warned that NATO's action could force progress against the Cold War to "sink into oblivion." A Clinton Administration official dismissed Yeltsin's criticism as "alarmist...
...everything there is a season. And on Capitol Hill, where legislators are eager to reap the rewards of passing landmark health-care legislation, this is the season to sow -- discord, that is. Currently, five Senate and House committees, each with jurisdiction over health-care legislation, are jostling over the details of "purchasing alliances," "payroll taxes" and "employer mandates," all in an effort to invent the plan that will eventually supplant the Clintons' hopelessly complicated 1,342-page proposal. The lawmakers all know the President is intractable on only one point: universal coverage. Each senses that the American public will balk...