Word: conflicts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...importance of representation on the Council-Arrow said that "if there is a conflict on the Faculty, it shold be represented on the Council ... In times when there have to be quick decisions, the Faculty should feel that the Council's decisions represent the Faculty's feelings." The Council's "legitimacy" would suffer if the otherwise, he said...
Speaking to a gathering of Brandeis honorary degree candidates in New York, Galbraith said that "the individualist ethic taught at universities. is marvelously in conflict" with a world that is "heavily and increasingly bureaucratic...
...diplomats, they are clearly more highly regarded than the Americans. Cultural affinities remain relatively strong; educated Vietnamese send their children to French-run prep schools, and degrees from French universities carry more prestige than those from U.S. universities. Moreover, the French war was never as disruptive as the present conflict. At its high point, there were only 200,000 French troops in all of Viet Nam, and there was far less destruction...
...blows last week. When a group of Italian faithful held a vigil to dramatize their demand for "a church of the poor," they were denounced by irate conservatives. "Communists!" they yelled. "Get out of Rome! Long live the Pope!" The scuffle in the streets was symptomatic of the conflict within the Vatican, where 144 prelates assembled this week for the second Bishops' Synod. In the Hall of Broken Heads, once the storage place for discarded statues, they began discussions about the troubled relationship between the Pope and his bishops...
...psychologists. They comb the computer lists, eliminating those words that are difficult to pronounce, look bad in print or are too similar to existing trademarks. The leftovers are tested for general appeal and memorability. With so many names floating about, no marketing man can be sure of avoiding a conflict. General Foods recently started test-marketing a snack product called Pringle's Pop Chips only to discover that Procter & Gamble was simultaneously testing Pringle's Newfangled Potato Chips. Even greater risks lurk in the slang of foreign languages. A leather-preservatives manufacturer tried to market a product called...