Word: rifted
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Moscow had several motives for acting the suitor. To some degree, its concessions were part of Gorbachev's "new thinking" in foreign affairs. A continuation of cold-shoulder policies between two of the world's great powers made little diplomatic sense. "There have been no benefits from this rift for anyone," says Mikhail Titarenko, director of Moscow's Institute of Far Eastern Studies...
...public protest. But it was the violence that would distress King more. Members of the Invaders, a local group of black militants, infiltrated his march with the garbage men. When windows were smashed, police moved in against orderly demonstrators and radicals alike. Despondent over the chaos and the rift in his once solid movement, King said, "Maybe the good people should just stand aside until the violence has run its course...
This long-term planning was overshadowed much of last semester as the dean search drew student and faculty frustrations close to the surface. With a new dean expected to address key issues such as minority groups' calls for greater campus representation and the deep rift between radical and more conservative faculty members, outbreaks of protest marked the Law School scene...
...project has caused a deep rift in the biomedical community, largely because of fears that it would divert scarce research funds. Mapping and sequencing the genome is expected to take at least 15 years and to cost $200 million annually. Another concern: Which federal agency is to lead the effort, the Department of Energy or the National Institutes of Health? Biomedical researchers have been worried that DOE, which entered the project out of interest in the effects of radiation on DNA, would stress technological achievements at the expense of scientific discovery. DOE scientists, on the other hand, have complained that...
...divorce. But they had a daughter, named Leroy. During the time when Jesse's family were part of Maggie's life, they were everything to her. And when Fiona and Leroy fled, seven years before the novel opens, Maggie was left with an abandonment she cannot forget and a rift she is determined to mend...