Word: splintered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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JAPANESE TRADE CARTELS, broken up by the Allied occupation authorities, are fast coming back. Mitsui Bussan, Japan's biggest prewar trading firm, has regrouped itself from its two biggest post-occupation splinter companies, now controls 18% (about $450 million) of Japan's total foreign trade-about the same as the prewar Mitsui Bussan...
...always insisted that the Christian Democrats' coalition with the small center parties (Liberals, Republicans and Social Democrats) is the only possible government in the present Parliament, and that a stable government is essential even if its disagreements result in immobilismo (doing nothing). Fanfani has argued that these splinter parties hobble any effective Christian-Democratic program. In the Sicilian elections, the small parties lost almost half their votes, giving weight to Fanfani's thesis...
...Christianity. To the Shiite Moslems of Iran, Bahaism is a heretical splinter group. The controversy centers around their belief in the second coming of the Imam, a descendent of Mohammed's son-in-law AH, who will inaugurate a new and glorious era in history after a period of wars, eclipses and catastrophes. But the Bahais believe that the Imam already has come-heralded by one Mirza Ali Mohammed, who proclaimed himself Bab (Gate) and stirred up enough theological ruction to get himself executed by the government in 1850. He was followed by Mirza Hussein Ali, a wealthy cabinet...
...reasoning or faith: that the laws which move the tiniest unseen electrons must also govern the macrocosms of intergalactic space. Einstein's scratchpad theorems broke through the thought barriers of knowledge and rewrote the basic scientific law of the universe. The now-mundane miracle of television is a splinter off Einstein's achievement; the mushroom clouds of atomic fission and hydrogen fusion are his unwanted monuments; mankind's chance to turn earth-shaking force into good is his legacy...
Sprawled around the semicircle of red-cushioned seats in the Palais Bourbon are six main groupings and a pivotal splinter...