Word: conflicts
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...within the same department won't communicate with one another because they are directors of competing companies outside the university." Even more disturbing was the danger that grants of promotion or time off for company-connected professors might be seen by colleagues as commercial favoritism. The potential for conflict of interest was obvious this month as the University of California went to court to protest that cell lines from its labs, also capable of creating interferon, had been turned over to commercial companies without the permission of the university's researchers...
...potential for a conflict between the new Administration and Europe certainly exists. Speaking before a meeting of Defense Ministers in Brussels last week, a senior British diplomat said, "Reagan must understand Washington can no longer order Europeans around." He had in mind such matters as defense spending...
TAKE, FOR EXAMPLE, the way the movie treats the conflict between Jonah's artistic integrity and his desire to make pop music charts. Jonah's view of his music, as interpreted by Simon, has none of the passionate devotion expected from an artist viewing his own work. When his first concert appearance in the movie is over, he receives a mediocre reception from a crowd that seconds later reacts riotously to the B-52s' performance of "Rock Lobster." The camera is positioned to show us the new wave group performing wildly onstage and Simon listening sulkily backstage, with the back...
...gathered there, segregated by sex, according to strict Islamic tradition. They welcomed their leader by chanting "Allahu Akbar" (God is great) and holding aloft Khomeini portraits. One of the militants stepped forward and read a prepared text. The Majlis decision, it declared, "does not mean the end of the conflict with America. As our Imam has said, we shall fight against world-devouring America until...
...decide if they wanted to demand student membership on the school's faculty-only admissions committee, with some students favoring demonstration and others preferring "to educate or vacillate," in the words of student association member Lori Forman. By week's end, all that seemed certain was that the conflict over the K-School's affirmative action policy is not likely to end quietly...