Word: rifted
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...took State Department negotiator Dennis Ross several weeks to heal that personal rift, but it hadn't been easy. Feeling like a parent dealing with two angry children locked in their rooms, Ross abruptly left Jerusalem at one point to force Arafat and Barak to speak to each other instead of conveying messages through...
...Gore campaign, on the other hand, may be only too happy to highlight the Cheneys' collective unyielding conservatism - if only to emphasize the rift between an increasingly centrist American electorate and the hard-right tendencies of the couple George W. Bush has chosen to act as presidential proxies...
...break with Harvard occurred in the midst of the Vietnam War. Many of Kissinger's Harvard colleagues vehemently opposed his policies as secretary of state, leading many to speculate that political bitterness has created a permanent rift between Kissinger and the University...
...Lampoon member who answered the castle door last night said the problems were caused by a rift between the Lampoon...
...Such a rift between Faculty members and central administration bodes ill for the institution as a whole. If the University is considering allocating large sums of money, for example, to relocate a graduate school to Allston, develop distance learning initiatives or create a multi-million dollar computer system to centralize finances, faculty members should be, at the very least, consulted, if not actively involved in the decision-making process. Instead, the FAS committee's report noted, "Major decisions involving the commitment of substantial resources...are sometimes first discovered by faculty from the local press." Some FAS members have even suggested...