Word: splitting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...halfway there," he says. "There's a lot of academics, and a few minor cronies. It wasn't brilliantly done." Habibie did craftily avoid making a move against his military bête noire, Defense Minister General Wiranto. "If he fired Wiranto now," McCarthy points out, "he would have split the military...
...There was always that split; the two groups were mutually exclusive," Ryou said. "If you joined one, you couldn't join the other. You couldn't really become friends [with people in the other group]," he says...
After the split, the groups developed very different reputations on campus. Ryou says the perception was that KSA was too social, and KACC not social enough...
Last year, students from the KSA and KCAA, as well as those on Yisei and in the Chun-sa dance troupe, began to question the split they had inherited, unconvinced of the need for multiple groups aimed at the same goal of fostering community...
Kamen came to the world of computers reluctantly at first. She had been writing her nutrition books on a typewriter when her husband came home one day in 1982 with a new IBM PC. The first time Kamen tried writing on it, she split a paragraph on the screen and panicked. "I couldn't figure out how to put it together again. The manuals were written by techies, and they were awful." Within two weeks, she was in love. When Kamen and her husband moved from New York City to Novato, Calif., several years ago, she would allow...