Word: rifted
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...Tories, who regularly attack Labor's unilateral approach to defense but have had more trouble scoring points against the alliance's stand, lost no time in exploiting the rift. By taking a stance so drastically opposed to that of their alliance partners, said Tory Party Chairman Norman Tebbit, the Liberals "have shot themselves through the heart rather than the foot...
...academic. Thatcher is widely expected to call elections well before the mid-1988 deadline, probably some time next year. While she will have the advantage of setting the date, the Labor Party has consistently led in the polls for the past nine months. Last week's Liberal- Social Democratic rift over defense policy may have helped the Tories, who stand to profit more than Labor from centrist confusion. Kinnock's resurgent party nonetheless remains a formidable opponent...
...failed tenure bid of a prominent associate professor of history revealed a rift between the University's older American historians and their younger colleagues who see the field's future as increasingly technical and specialized, department members said...
While the tenure decisions themselves may or may not have been correct, the fact that a majority of the faculty is angered over how these decisions came about points to poor leadership by Dean of the Law School James Vorenberg '49. Yet rather than seek to heal the rift, Vorenberg decided to grease the appointment wheels by stacking the tenure committee with conservative stalwarts. The result, not too surprisingly, was to further divide the faculty...
...rift in our communication made it clearer to me why it was so difficult to understand the situation in Europe. None of us really knew the facts. My friend argued that our jets were allowed to fly over France. But I believed the opposite...