Word: split
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Crimson split a pair of matches this weekend at the Malkin Athletic Center. Harvard (1-3 overall) pulverized Vassar's club team, 2-0, and then fell to Tufts' club team by the same margin...
...This split in revolutionary strategies lasted for decades, and though the Bolsheviks claimed a majority, they were often outvoted within the party. Plekhanov tended to side with the Mensheviks, and so did an obstreperously brilliant newcomer named Lev Bronstein, who signed his fiery pamphlets with the name Trotsky. Lenin fought ruthlessly for control. He denounced his opponents as not Social Democrats but "Social Chauvinists," as "puerile," as "windbags"; after he lost a vote, he would accuse the winners of spiritless "parliamentarianism." When the Russian workers rose up in the largely spontaneous revolt of 1905, it was Trotsky, still only...
...another best seller in its J-class car, sold as a Vauxhall Cavalier in the United Kingdom and as an Opel Vectra in other countries. Rolled out in 1988 to rave reviews for its advanced engines and styling, the Vectra also offers the best fuel efficiency in its class, split-folding rear seats and height-adjustable seat belts. The car can be equipped with an optional 16-valve, four-cylinder engine that even Mercedes engineers have hailed as the best multivalve motor in the world. GM Europe sold 364,000 of the cars last year, up 60% from...
...victory of us over them, it's a flip-flop of that, an enlightened cry for a move of us toward them. Even as the chroniclers of current events proclaim the Cold War to be over, our mental worlds are all still marked by an East-West split...
...mental worlds play a large role in determining what we do. It is not only our conception of global politics that is based upon an us-them split. The us-them dichotomy also colors our local perceptions...