Word: strife
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...incidents over the past few weeks have resulted in strife and dissension, and a climate of distrust has taken over on campus. Feelings have been hurt and people have taken sides. How do we repair the damage and move forward to encourage and enhance a sense of community linking our commonalities while cherishing our differences? There has been enough misunderstanding and bad feelings on all sides...
...then, do the winds and waves of strife...
...because I am a member of the African National Congress I must not then in my fiction suggest that everything members of that organization do is right or that there's never any dissension. In My Son's Story, my latest novel, there's a lot of jealousy and strife portrayed among characters who are supposed to be in a branch of the ANC, and they are portrayed because these are the realities of life...
Dinkins said that the poor economic conditions of American cities have severe repercussions, such as exacerbating racial strife...
...Yugoslavia's strife, the E.C. has been haunted by a feeling of deja vu. More than a century ago, Otto von Bismarck gazed on another Balkan crisis -- the collapse of the empire of Ottoman Turkey -- and shrank from getting militarily involved. In the Iron Chancellor's view, Germany had no interests there that "would be worth the healthy bones of a single Pomeranian musketeer." Though Serbian nationalism went on to ignite the First World War, the E.C. last week seemed to feel much as Bismarck had. At an emergency session in the Hague, the Community's foreign ministers rejected...