Word: tiff
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Since the very public tiff, Seton has tried to underplay the incident, dubbing it a misunderstanding and emphasizing a subsequent reconciliation...
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This summer, during a semi-public tiff over the extent of Radcliffe's role in Harvard's Celebration of Women events, held last October, Radcliffe President Linda S. Wilson told the Boston Globe, "Harvard and Radcliffe are like a supertanker and a canoe. Harvard is very large, while Radcliffe moves alongside and is a little more maneuverable. But what the supertanker does has more impact on us than what we have on them." With Byerly Hall, that canoe is successfully challenging the tanker...
...former Canal Zone, meanwhile, another diplomatic tiff concerned Panama's decision to award a contract to run the ports of Cristobal and Balboa to Hong Kong's Hutchison Whampoa Ltd. in a deal that Ambassdor Hughes said was unfair to American bidders. And in a confused transaction that gives potential investors little confidence, the government leased land to Hutchison that was also needed by the Panama Railroad and the local airport authority. The resulting legal mess was only recently resolved...
...therein lies the problem. As Solatzo the Turk says, "Blood is a big expense," and in reality being bad is all fun and games until someone loses an eye--or, in Bugsy's case, a head. After a tiff over Vegas (Bugsy said yes, Lucky said no, and the mafia world was divided forever after over the fate of America's top sleazepost), Luciano had Seigel shot, ending an era of mafia power that only the Corliones could revive. In Puzio's restive family we see all that Lansky and his pals could never capture: the tranquility...