Word: rifted
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...propensity to harp publicly on the importance of decreasing the deficit has caused disaffection in Washington among officials who him that the Economics department professor is "playing to Harvard" and seeking to maintain "academic largely" in the midst of the President's economic programs. But what this recent rift reveals is perhaps something more interesting officials within the fold of the President's economic advisers are beginning to pick sides. According to reports in The New York Times, the President if on the advice of the Secretary of the Treasury Donold F. Regan and the Secretary of State George...
This apprehension results in a rift between students and the professors who should be playing a vital role in their college experience, she concluded...
...burden of Fools of Fortune. Trevor's ninth and most despairing novel covers half a century of Irish troubles. One of the characters even loses the gift of speech. She is the daughter of an Irish father and an English mother whose forced separation suggests the rift between their closely related countries. The child, Imelda, is even more symbolic of the price exacted by violence and hatred. Rendered mute and autistic by horror, she is a pathetic representative of the past, present and future. Says her father, Willie Quinton: "It happens sometimes that the insane are taken...
This past July, ECAC Commissioner Scotty Whitelaw called a meeting of the two factions, trying--in vain--to heal the rift. Relations between the groups have turned adversarial, with little talk since the meeting...
...rift within Fatah. It is very, very serious. As I told my fighters today, it is a case of Arab interference. Our bases in the Bekaa Valley are surrounded. The Libyan role is clear. [Libyan Leader] Muammar [Gaddafi] and his mass media are declaring that they are taking part in the attacks against our forces. The Syrians are saying they are not involved, but their moves make their role clear also. Their tanks and troops are blockading our bases...