Word: strife
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...didn’t have the tools to write about what he wanted to exactly. So, in the past few weeks, he changed his topic to something else he had been exploring while in Asia—the phenomenon of internally displaced people in Burma due to ongoing civil strife...
...from the stores around the Square and combining some of my thanks for gifts received with recent developments in the sports world. I thought that I’d spice things up like pumpkin pie and throw in a little ranting too, just like the mix of harmony and strife that accompanies any holiday gathering of family and friends...
...fundamentalist Muslim groups responsible for worldwide terrorist acts share the goal of removing Western influence from the Muslim Middle East and Asia [TERRORISM, Oct. 28]. They are a continuing threat to our ideals of democracy and tolerance. Until all these radical groups are eliminated, there will be constant global strife. NELSON MARANS Silver Spring...
What makes anyone think that Christians, Muslims and Jews can unite behind any man, when they cannot live in peace under the one true God they all believe in? The search for peace through Abraham will lead only along the path we have already traveled--to disagreements, discord and strife. The sole solution is for people of the three faiths to live together as children of God. George J. Steele Amsterdam...
...comment on legal affairs. Sabena was in trouble for years. Founded in 1923, it flew routes across Europe and within the Congo, Belgium's African colony, and grew rapidly in its late-1940s-and-1950s heyday. Then came the end of the colonial period, the 1970s fuel shocks, labor strife and mounting losses requiring regular government bailouts. By the 1980s Sabena was being lampooned as a bottomless pit. An attempt at restructuring in 1982-83 brought some respite, but in the rapidly changing world of commercial airlines, the carrier was too small, its costs too high. Sabena needed a partner...