Word: fractiousness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...many issues, Aquino is caught between the right and left wings of her fractious government. Her liberal advisers charge that the vigilantes threaten to become the Philippine equivalents of Latin American death squads. Says Haydee Yurac, a former member of Aquino's Presidential Commission on Human Rights: "It's a dangerous phenomenon that can easily get out of hand." Conservatives, including many officials of the Roman Catholic Church, counter that the people have a right to self-protection. The vigilantes, says Jaime Cardinal Sin, the outspoken Archbishop of Manila, represent the "people reacting to the violence of the rebels." Says...
College basketball' s fractious Knight takes the title back home to Indiana. -- Mets' fears are realized: Dwight Gooden on drugs...
...guard has wielded far too much power to remain shrouded in obscurity. The character and competence of an Administration is often shaped by those who command offices in the West Wing of the White House. Such has been particularly the case with Ronald Reagan. In his first term, the fractious troika of James Baker, Edwin Meese and Michael Deaver exposed the often passive President to a wide diversity of opinion. In contrast, the ill-fated monolithic regime of Chief of Staff Donald Regan demonstrated that Reagan is far better served by a disparate team than a surrogate Prime Minister...
Despite the committee's depiction of a fractious White House staff, the Administration welcomed the release of the document because the Senators found no "direct evidence" that the President knew of the illegal diversion of funds from the Iran arms sales to the Nicaraguan rebels. From the start of the controversy, Reagan's protectors have been seemingly obsessed with establishing the President's lack of culpability in the contra connection...
...Mansfield tried to turn back progress at last week's faculty meeting. In the ballot to make Women's Studies a degree-granting program, Mansfield cast the lone dissenting vote of the entire Faculty of Arts and Science. The lack of any more organized opposition in the sometimes fractious faculty demonstrates how far Women's Studies has come as an academic field beyond the walls of the Yard. Now it's finally time for the discipline to continue its advances within them...