Word: strife
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...that has taken the lives of almost 11,000 blacks since 1984. But in the week leading up to the agreement, more than 120 people were killed in the year's worst outbreak of black-on-black violence, dashing hopes that the pact would soon bring peace to the strife-torn townships...
...Hughes' Home Alone became the all-time surprise comedy hit. Now three more Hughes movies have come and -- quickly, ignominiously -- gone. Career Opportunities, Only the Lonely and Dutch together have grossed $35 million, just one-eighth of Home Alone's take. Suddenly audiences are tired of Hughes' cute family strife. Streaks end. It happens...
...cultural Europe with institutional underpinnings -- the Council of Europe, the European Parliament, the European Court of Human Rights, the European Commission on Human Rights and other institutions -- to which grievances can be and have been brought. Even in the Soviet Union, putting aside tragedies like the Armenian-Azerbaijani strife, the recent rapprochement between Yeltsin and his eight republican leader-colleagues and Gorbachev, however temporary it may be, suggests that people have begun to recognize a more pluralistic political culture than had existed a year...
...television set glows. On the screen are flashing images of violence from the strife-torn Middle East. A black-haired man with warm eyes sits besides a little girl, his daughter. Seeing the pictures of Israeli soldiers toting machine guns, bombed out store-fronts, hijacked airplanes, the man's thoughts turn to earlier days. He tells his daughter of what has been lost--a garden, a stone house overlooking the Meditteranean, a home...
When President Derek C. Bok took office in 1971, many hoped he would bring calm to a strife-torn campus. And when he leaves this spring, many will say he succeeded...