Given Todd Christie's business interests, and his brush with federal investigators, some political analysts warn that if he is closely involved in state government, his brother's administration could quickly find itself confronting conflict-of-interest concerns.
This might come from personal experience and not educational training, says Ben Kernighan, deputy chief executive at Leap Confronting Conflict, which works with young people struggling with conflict to get them recruitment-ready.
I'm Passive-Aggressive" (Nov. 16): The "hostile cooperation" that Dr. Lorna Benjamin characterizes as the core of passive-aggression is but one maladaptive solution to fears of confronting conflict.
Confronting conflict in waking life has a powerful effect on the information we are able to gather from dreams.
As they do, both Congress and the White House confront conflicting pressures from voters and markets to take steps that will reduce deficits in the long run but add to them in the short run, by extending the existing stimulus spending and tax cuts, to prop up the economy so it does not fall back into a recession.
6 ways that organizations can overcome fear in the workplace and create a fear-free culture: 1. Confront conflict with others face-to-face.
Unfortunately, the S.E.C. has provided little direction to corporate leaders confronting these conflicting demands.
The state ethics law, passed in 1967, directs lawmakers who confront potential conflicts to "consider the possibility of eliminating the conflict".
Although the Olympic Charter sets a goal to "put sport at the service of the harmonious development of humankind," the Olympics have never been especially adept at confronting political conflict.
The new leader must confront several conflicts: attacks by local militias on oil facilities in the Niger Delta; the Muslim-Christian religious divide; the battle for fertile land; and bitter ethnic rivalries.
