Word: strife
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...problems, purity our still imperfect society, with little or no cost to the people. After all, the economic pie had consistently been growing at mercurial rates since World War II. No redistribution of wealth would be necessary to clean up the environment and eradicate poverty. Nor would civil strife arise as the liberals attempted to erase sexual and racial discrimination. Gripped by this smug self-delusion, the nation accepted the Democratic agenda and agreed to achieve these seemingly facile goals...
...Sikhs were originally a non-violent sees formed in about 1500 in an attempt to reconcile Hinduism and Islam. Currently, there is strife in India between all three groups...
...full-court diplomatic press was afoot last week, aimed at bringing an end, on paper at least, to strife in Central America-and intended by some of its participants to keep the Reagan Administration on the defensive. In New York City, the foreign ministers of the so-called Contadora group of countries (Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela and Panama) appeared before the United Nations General Assembly to declare their confidence that a peace treaty for the region will be ready to be signed as of Oct. 15. Their U.N. appearance followed that of Daniel Ortega Saavedra, coordinator of Nicaragua's revolutionary...
...qualify as flabbergasting. But while the Tigers and Royals have sampled defeat, and the Padres have done more than that, only the Cubs have stood for disillusionment, and their first success in 39 years has wrought a national catharsis. For Cub fans actually from Chicago, where this way of strife is passed down like a pickax from father to son, it must be gently annoying to find so many noble sufferers going public, besides George Will and the other political columnists breaking out in their regular rash...
DIED. Pierre Gemayel, 78, courtly, shrewd and strong-willed political chieftain of Lebanon's Christians, a key powerbroker in the country's factional political strife, and father of President Amin Gemayel and his brother Bashir, who was killed in 1982 before he could assume the presidency; of a heart attack; in Bikfaya, Lebanon. He helped found the right-wing Phalange Party in 1936 to protect the interests of Maronite Christians from submergence by Islam and a year later assumed its leadership; he fought French colonialists, Muslim rivals, Christian competitors, Syrians and Palestinians, and he survived several assassination attempts...