Word: spat
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Yesterday, professors raised issues from the curricular review to the University’s expansion into Allston to Summers’ famous spat with former Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West ’74. They said Summers’ tenure has been marked by a style of leadership more akin to a for-profit corporation or governmental bureaucracy than an academic institution...
...bigger implications. At its core is a debate about the relationship between the state and private enterprise--specifically, what sort of helping hand can a country legally give its friendly local planemaker? Because of the big money involved and the critical role that aircraft play in national security, the spat threatens already tense U.S.-E.U. relations and could hurt the huge aerospace industry and its thousands of employees on both sides of the Atlantic...
...core, it is a debate about the relationship between the state and private enterprise - specifically, what sort of helping hand a country can legally give its friendly local planemaker. But because of the big money involved and the critical role that aircraft play in national security, the spat threatens already tense U.S.-E.U. relations, and could hurt the huge aerospace industries - and their hundreds of thousands of employees - on either side of the Atlantic. It's been a high-flying journey for Airbus, a company founded in 1970 as a government-backed consortium to forge a European answer to America...
BEST PUNCH: Reopening a spat that followed a 9/11 benefit, the Fox anchor questioned whether funds from an NBC telethon would go to tsunami relief: "If George Clooney and other stars go on TV and ask you to give, then they had better be involved all the way down the line...
...other. Maka shut her eyes and tried to cry out, but her assailants wadded her tobe, the long, colorful shawl worn by Sudanese women, and stuffed it down her throat, choking her. "You are the wife of a rebel," they taunted, and beat her. When it was done they spat and called her a sodomite...