Word: tiff
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Tiff Wood: the unluckiest man in rowing. After rowing with the Rude and Smooth, Wood was selected as the spare on the 1976 Olympic team, but never rowed a stroke. He was captain of the 1980 men's team, but the U.S. boycott cost him that chance. He lost out for the 1984 Olympic team, and ended up as the spare again...
...faint possibility that Israel might nuke the Soviet Union is not what the tiff is really about. Though Israel has never officially admitted building the new missile, let alone acknowledged that it produces nuclear warheads, the Jewish state has been known to be testing such a missile for at least a year. Analysts say the Kremlin is speaking out now only because it is engaged in a delicate diplomatic minuet. On the one hand, Moscow is pressuring the U.S. and its European allies to eliminate all medium-range missiles as part of a larger arms-control agreement. Last week...
...business, he zigzags around the world on his jets the way others hop in a car to run an errand, because he must be there face-to-face. He believes that through the force of his personality, he can broker a billion-dollar merger or patch up a domestic tiff. Recently, in a conversation with a woman he had just met, she confided to him that she was in the final stages of divorce. "Stop!" he said excitedly. "Let me reconcile you! I am good...
...Kremlin to reap the benefits from the resolution of a crisis of its own creation. If we do it again, we will have confirmed the reduction of the conduct of superpower politics to the level of sexual politics, where one partner in the game may occasionally provoke a tiff because they so much enjoy the pleasures of making...
...behavior of the largely secular nation, such as halting public transportation and the national airline on the Sabbath. Without the religious parties to form a Parliamentary majority, pre-unity governments were helpless: in 1976 the Labor Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin had to resign in the aftermath of a tiff with Orthodox leaders about breaking the Sabbath...