Word: splits
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...split personality, merging the liberal social activist with the money-minded manager: "I was a boy who worked in his father's dry cleaners and a college graduate who went to the Peace Corps...
GOVERNMENT RIVALS. One of the government's most outspoken critics is the man legally entitled to take over if Yeltsin should depart: Vice President Alexander Rutskoi. He provided key support when his Communists for Democracy faction split with party hard-liners and backed Yeltsin's campaign for Russia's top post. Yeltsin rewarded him with the second spot, but since last fall Rutskoi has turned on his boss with a very public campaign against the economic reform plan of Deputy Prime Minister Yegor Gaidar. Though a proponent of reform in principle, Rutskoi recently described Gaidar's program of freeing prices...
Victor died in 1967, and Richard stayed home to look after his mother. When she died in 1973, he inherited their four-bedroom house as part of the estimated $340,000 estate, which he split with elder brother Kenneth. Left on his own, Kreimer dabbled in landscaping and worked on a horse farm...
While at Penn, Muhammad split the Black community on campus by forming the Organization of Black Consciousness, challenging the already-existing Black Student League...
...necessary to insist upon a literalistic interpretation of Scripture to see the moral law apparent in the natural order; nor is it necessary to split fine theological hairs to appreciate the importance of this moral issue to fundamental doctrines regarding creation and redemption upon which the Churches of Eastern, Roman and reformed Christendom have always been agreed...