Word: strife
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...financial bailouts. "The less of it, the better for everybody," says Suh Sang Mok of the Korea Development Institute, a government think tank. Intervening in remaining disputes may also be logistically impossible. At one point last week, the Labor Ministry reported that 485 companies were plagued by labor strife...
...turned out, Rajiv Gandhi was not injured. Nonetheless, the attack was a painful reminder to the Prime Minister of how much strife and distrust had been aroused by the pact he had just initialed -- and how uncertain were its chances of success. For four years Sri Lanka, a teardrop of an island off India's southern coast, has been plagued by a vicious battle that has claimed more than 6,000 lives. Pitting the Sinhalese majority against the minority Tamils, the conflict has not only imperiled Jayewardene's government but threatened to drag New Delhi further into a war that...
...COVER: Strife- torn South Korea faces a crisis of Olympic proportions...
...airport. The dancers give as good as they get. At one acrimonious dinner in Spoleto, Italy, they accuse him of cheating at cards. He is appalled. Yet they are loyal; no Taylor dancer ever departs to join a rival company, and one gain comes out of all the strife: "onstage togetherness -- a tribal unity that all audiences notice right...
...Despite the general discontent, polls show that Israelis do not want to go to the polls before the elections scheduled for November 1988. Surprisingly, for all the differences between the ruling parties, the power-sharing arrangement continues to be popular with Israeli voters. "The public is tired of ideological strife," says a former government official. "They know ideologies are stale and fossilized, so basically they feel there's no reason to change the government...