Word: strife
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Political pros considered Brown too inexperienced and unbending to survive a tough campaign against such presumed heavyweights as San Francisco Mayor Joseph Alioto and Assembly Speaker Robert Moretti. But Alioto got bogged down in municipal and marital strife while Moretti waged an inept campaign. Brown, talking vaguely about bringing a "new spirit" to Sacramento, campaigned on a safe liberal platform that stressed open government, campaign reform, and improved education and social benefits. In the end Brown won with 38% of the Democratic vote...
...break the strike. The Rev. Ian Paisley, however, declared: "The strike must go on!" If it does, the victim will not only be Ulster's economy, but also the Sunningdale agreement, which six months ago promised an end to Northern Ireland's tragic and bizarre sectarian strife...
...distribution of income among the population. In attempting to steer a neutral course in global politics, he clashed with-and later fired-Foreign Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. Bhutto became a critic of Ayub's regime and was jailed briefly in November 1968. After five months of bloody civil strife, Ayub stepped down into retirement. Bhutto became President in 1971 and today is Pakistan's Prime Minister. · Died. Gerald Martin Loeb, 74, wise stockbroker and bestselling author (The Battle for Investment Survival); of a heart attack; in San Francisco. Loeb joined the E.F. Hutton brokerage house...
...down Sonny on their TV show. Then Sonny sued for a legal separation. Cher countersued, claiming she was sold into "involuntary servitude" to Sonny by a craftily written contract. Now Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour producers are having their downer. The show's rationale, the joys of marital strife, has vanished. But impervious to the show's doom and the feelings of their fans, Sonny and Cher seem content to rest on their considerable commercial success. That is to say, Sonny is. Cher's ambitions are already focused elsewhere. At the Grammy Awards, she showed...
...beings," as Hughes called it, was not acceptable from a black writer. But you have to accept Harlem in the Evening on Hughes's terms, as a story about human beings, in a world he knew best: Harlem in the early 1940s. There is no overbearing emphasis on racial strife, though it is inevitably present; no modern stereotyping of older caricatures, portrayed as Hughes put it, "with an eye dead on the white market," though occasionally his characters lapse into archetypes...