Word: sunders
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...authority in water issues already exists to create a poorly integrated administrative structure--one sharply criticized in the K-School report. The new cabinet level position might only add to the confusion, due to the inevitable wrangling and ambiguity over responsibility for various areas. It has the potential to sunder water quality from water quantity--almost certainly a mistake...
...levels of the Faculty there'sunder-representation of women," says AssociateDean for Undergraduate Education David Pilbeam."But there is sort of a drop-off at the seniorlevel and we have to consider what can be done...
Chamorro's assassination catalyzed the national rebellion that was already building against the regime, and subsequently served to sunder the bereaved family. In 1980, only a year after the revolution, the newspaper was paralyzed by a struggle between family members who supported the new Sandinista government and those critical of its Marxist-Leninist tendencies. The conservatives won, and Chamorro's brother Xavier, editor of La Prensa, left to form his own newspaper, taking most of the staff with him. Today Chamorro's widow, his brothers and sisters and four children are arrayed in almost equal numbers...
...Kandinsky, the other fa ther figure of abstract painting, he was a Theosophist: a man given to dreams of the millennium, when material reality would wither away and leave an ideal domain of the pure spirit. Art would help in this great, vague process. Though words were hard to sunder from the sublunary mire of things, art could become intrinsically abstract, as pure an example of internal harmony as music...
Romantic fictions depend on difficulty. Something has to keep the lovers apart for a while to build suspense and the audience's sympathy before they can get together. And, of course, there has to be something to sunder them at the end. But nowadays all the old reliable problems - differences of years, background and religion, for example - are carelessly surmounted all the time by lovers. So the search for something to deter, for a few reels, a middleaged, middle-class Marcello Mastroianni from turning his one-night stand with Nastassia Kinski, a spunky student, into a full-scale affair...