Word: strife
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...sudden arrival of immigrants, and their slow takeover of entire segments of a local economy, is not always a peaceful process. Sometimes strife breaks out between the new Americans and old Americans. On the Texas coast, Vietnamese refugees now dominate the shrimping industry. The immigrants, who , have come over the past decade, had fished for a living in Viet Nam. They were able to dominate the industry by working together as families. They put in twelve-hour days, subsist mainly on a diet of rice and fish, and often cram several families into a small apartment. They waste nothing. Americans...
...loyalty to the President that made the thing go," says Meese, a thought that all three endorse. They loved the man, to put it in its purest terms. They would do almost anything to help him, and almost anything to avoid embarrassing him. Reagan did not want strife in this staff, so the troika worked about as hard at getting along with one another as they did on anything...
Considering all of the strife the team underwent in early spring, it's remarkable how for the spikers were able...
...meant as a soothing dose of diplomacy for a strife-torn territory--and an antidote to criticism at home. French President Francois Mitterrand last week made a sudden visit to the French Pacific-island territory of New Caledonia, where at least 18 people have been killed since November in an increasingly bitter struggle over independence. After announcing the trip in a nationally televised interview, Mitterrand said he was going to the troubled territory to "express what I believe to be reason" and to show support for French Special Envoy Edgard Pisani, author of a controversial independence plan for the islands...
...course, we have an interest in making cultural objects meaningful for the present, of using them this way to become sensitive to both the present and the past. Seven Against Therbes could be used to tell a culture about the dangers of civil strife, Perhaps Endgame should be adopted in to a new play: an existential version of The Day After or a theatric reminder that the war on poverty was just at unsuccessful as the debacle in Vietnam...