Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Escalon district and then melting away again. As rebels burned several luxurious homes and sniped at slowly advancing government troops from windows, hundreds of foreigners and wealthy Salvadorans fled the country. The F.M.L.N. even carried the battle to the skies: for the first time in the ten- year-old conflict, the insurgents fired a surface-to-air missile at an air force jet. The sharply escalating violence not only raised fresh questions about Nicaragua's role in arming the Salvadoran guerrillas, but proved an unwelcome irritant for the U.S. and the Soviet Union on the eve of their Malta summit...
...There is a real conflict of interest," saidByard. "It is impossible for him to do an adequatejob on both...
Some questions filed this year-- particularly the four calling for changes in the state tax law--may conflict. If voters approve conflicting changes in the law, the court will have to decide which initiative survives, Connolly said...
...AGRAVE conflict threatens the workings of Harvard's largest public service organization. The Phillips Brooks House Association is plagued by an ill-defined relationship between the organization's full-time staff and its undergraduate members...
Bradley, who is under investigation by state and federal agencies for possible conflict-of-interest and insider-trading violations, pledged to work for passage of the code by the city council. But that body is writing its own ethics rules and is said to be lukewarm toward the recommendations. Even if the council balks, however, the commission has vowed to take its proposals to the voters as a ballot initiative, which may assure victory since Californians tend to approve such measures. Once enacted, Los Angeles' no-nonsense ethics rules could become the model for municipalities like New York City...