Word: feuded
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Your article "The Plague of Tribal Enmity" [Jan. 17] focused mainly on the feud between Zimbabwe's Shona and Ndebele tribes, ignoring the other oppressed groups. As a member of a Zimbabwe minority tribe, I deplore the lack of dialogue between the people of my nation. Their refusal to accept religious, linguistic or racial diversity in others is a clear signal of a fatal future...
...have an all-out family feud here, and in a family feud there are no winners," says William Godwin, student-body president. "The loser will be Auburn University...
...bitter feud that has split one of the South's best-known institutions of higher learning swirls around President Hanly Funderburk, 51, who took office in April 1980. Funderburk's policies have sapped morale, antagonized many members of the faculty and administrative staff, raised the specter of political control and brought into question the mission of the 127-year-old institution in the Alabama town that bears its name. Three vice presidents have resigned in protest, and the faculty has twice passed no-confidence votes against the president, the last by a 3-to-l margin. In November...
...opponents they defeated during the nine-week season were thought less significant than those they avoided in the eight-week strike. Miami missed the Cincinnati Bengals, the Los Angeles Raiders, the San Diego Chargers; Washington skipped the Pittsburgh Steelers, the Bengals, the Texas side of its home-and-away feud with the Dallas Cowboys. By the purest fortune the Redskins had the entire American Football Conference wiped off its slate. In the A.F.C., fit offspring of the old American Football League, the ball flies freely and the defensive coordinators speak fearfully, not of halting the opposition's offense, just...
...house at Broadway and 39th Street, which was built in 1883, was outmoded, and Bliss became a chief proponent of a move to a new structure in Lincoln Center. He won his argument, and the company journeyed north in 1966. But following a feud with Rudolf Bing, the Met's impresario from 1950 to 1972, he was pushed aside as board president. When Bing's successor, Schuyler Chapin, failed to curb the escalating deficits, Bliss was brought in as a salaried executive to put the house in order...