Word: fractiousness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...other out. Elvis Costello has played a lot of clubs these last few years; after an angry, violent American tour, morsels of America sizzled in his brainpan, and in Get Happy!! Elvis thrust his middle finger up her dumb whore B-Movie hole, the music as hyper-energized, as fractious and scrappy as the country itself. It was a smashing, reverberating disc that some of us thought would go through the roof critically and commercially. Alas. audiences and rock critics can't digest so much. They prefer two-or-three-chord junk food--who said rock and roll wasn...
...Japanese may have captured nearly 15% of the British market and 17% of West Germany's new car sales. The Japanese now have 21% of the U.S. auto market. European automakers, like their American counterparts, will have to face the Japanese challenge by obtaining more cooperation from often fractious labor unions, boosting productivity and turning out cars that can compete with the Japanese in price and appeal...
Without the power to discipline and reward, the always fractious F.D.R. coalition has pretty much fractured. Even many blacks deserted the party they used to support almost by instinct. A profound psychological shift occurred in American voters: they lost much of their desire or need to be part of a political majority, but instead formed themselves into single-issue constituencies, an oddly specialized and peculiarly destructive version of politics. In the era of single-issue politics, it is not a broad political agenda, a party's view of the nation, that is important, but gun control or abortion...
...Minister Edgar Tekere that begins in Salisbury this week. The manner in which the trial of the radical and powerful Minister of Manpower, Planning and Development is conducted, and its eventual outcome, will be widely regarded as a crucial test of Mugabe's control over his promising, but fractious, young country. Said Sir Roy Welensky, former Prime Minister of the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland: "The world will be watching the outcome of this trial...
...demand solutions, so how come the candidates don't?" So muses Claudia Wells, 29, a secretary in Charleston, S.C., and her puzzlement is hardly unique. As Campaign '80 moves into its final three weeks, the discussion of the U.S.'s pressing economic problems has become a fractious and cantankerous presidential non-debate that is informing no one and confusing voters everywhere...