Word: strife
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...have a cultural difference, as well as alevel of economy that's quite different:capitalist, democratic society versus a societyand a culture that's just come out of a horriblecivil war," she said. Many Ethiopian families weredisplaced in the civil strife that drove outdictator Mengistu Haile Mariam...
...killings of the consular workers were the first in recent memory that both involved foreigners in Karachi and were not connected directly with crime or sectarian strife. That led some diplomats in Karachi to speculate that the attackers were Islamic militants angry at Pakistan's extradition to the U.S. in February of Ramsi Yousef, suspected mastermind of New York City's 1993 World Trade Center bombing. Others suggest it may have been a deliberate attack on CIA employee Durell, pointing out that only he was directly fired upon. Van Landingham died because she was sitting beside Durell and came...
...Private Altars is about more than the strife Vienna is forced to endure; it is about language. In sentence after lush sentence, Mosby is intent on showing the reader that she was primarily a poet before trying fiction. Turn to nearly any page and find an image like this, which describes Vienna's distaste for mundane tea-table conversation: "It was as remote from her interests as the hieroglyphs spewed from the endless coiling tongue of a ticker-tape machine." The trouble is that the accretion of similes sometimes slows the story to a maddening pace. Nevertheless, Mosby's debut...
Dickerson expressed his intention to improve the image of the club and prevent internal strife...
Aslam says he once read a derogatory message, posted over the Internet, on ethnic strife in Pakistan, and was moved to reply. He may not have responded, he says, if it had been a "direct confrontation...