Word: strife
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Though the issues were complex, the fundamental question was clear: would Heath's Tory government ever be able to make good on its pledges to end the ceaseless labor strife that has sapped Britain's industrial competitiveness and clouded its economic and social future? Sadly, that goal has rarely seemed more remote. In the first six months of this year alone, wildcat strikes and sporadic walkouts cost Britain precisely 15,460,000 "lost" working days-more than for all of 1971 and indeed for any year since 1926, the year of the great General Strike...
Since the days of the three-masters, merchant seamen the world over have regarded New York harbor as by far the U.S.'s premier port of call. Now the tide is changing. Chronic labor strife, rampant pilferage and the rising cost of doing business are forcing many shippers to steer around the Port of New York, which is an 833-mile labyrinth of piers stretching from northern New Jersey to western Long Island. Less than 13% of the nation's ocean-borne foreign trade passes through the port, a drop of more than 50% in the past three...
...Soviet Union refrain from fueling strife throughout the world if it is genuinely desirous of reaching a state of accord with...
...after the Peloponnesian War. (The word itself is from the Greek amnestia, which means "forgetfulness.") The Romans, on occasion, continued the custom, which they called restitutio in integrum, and many other states since then have granted amnesty to achieve reconciliation after a civil war or a period of internal strife. France, which has seen more such conflict than most countries, has made amnesty almost a habit; the latest example occurred in 1968 when right-wing opponents of Charles de Gaulle's Algerian policy were forgiven their earlier campaign of terror. Britain, with a more placid history, has had less...
...comes from the conservative hierarchy of the Catholic Church, which three decades ago threatened to excommunicate any Catholic who joined the army. In his Christmas message, for instance, Bishop William McFeely of Raphoe condemned "the callous men who are now prepared to plunge this whole county into anarchy and strife. We must be on our guard against the untold evil that unthinking words and actions could do to this country...