Word: split
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Soviet foreign-policy specialists, who several years ago relished debating geopolitics and ballistic-missile throw weight, would now rather lament the surfeit of nearly worthless rubles or the possibility that the Communist Party will split into two (or six or 20) new parties...
Last February, after Stallings proclaimed his total split from Rome on the Phil Donahue show, the archdiocese excommunicated him and all Catholics in his flock. At that time, the priest announced that his organization had abandoned Catholic teachings against abortion, birth control, homosexual activity and remarriage after divorce. His planned consecration as a bishop this week is to be performed by a like-minded prelate from an obscure white denomination, Archbishop Richard Bridges of the Independent Old Catholic Church in Highland, Calif. As a bishop, Stallings will be able to ordain his own schismatic priests...
...proportional representation, which also perpetuates the dominance of longtime leaders. The candidates are chosen by the party, voters cast their ballots for a party, and parliamentary seats are allotted to each faction according to its share of the total vote. Since the mid-1980s, the electorate has been evenly split between right and left, making a decisive outcome all but impossible...
Breaking up is not that hard to do -- especially if it's been done before. More than a month after its neighbors Lithuania and Estonia declared their independence from Moscow, Latvia last week became the final Baltic republic to split from the Soviet Union. By a vote of 138 to 0, the Latvian parliament approved the start of an unspecified period of transition to full independence. In the interim, it called for negotiations with Moscow...
...Tigers' season-ending rip-roaring win over Harvard (10-6 overall, 6-1 Ivy) gives Princeton (6-1 Ivy) a share of the Ivy title, forcing the Crimson to split the crown for the second consecutive year. The title is the Crimson's eighth-straight Ivy championship...