The official said that leaders in Congress were notified that the call would take place ahead of time, as was the government of Israel, a longtime U.S. ally that has hostile relations with Iran.
Ms. Ricks, 55, said longtime residents of the development were hostile to newcomers from Cabrini and had been trying to chase them out.
"You chalk it up to two guys being around each other too much," one longtime co-worker said of their hostile relationship.
And the national development bank, a longtime conduit for foreign capital, is under the control of politicians who have been hostile to foreign financial interests.
Any pretense that Roche and its longtime partner Genentech could amicably negotiate a merger collapsed Friday, as Roche began a surprise hostile bid and each company accused the other of not negotiating in good faith.
The judge also found that the union had illegally harassed the Met's honorary chairman, Donald Crawford, the longtime chairman of the Omnicom Group, the advertising giant, by having union supporters distribute leaflets and ask hostile questions at Omnicom's board meeting.
Hacker is a longtime contributor to The New York Review of Books and the author of the acclaimed study "Two Nations: Black and White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal," while Taylor, a religion scholar who recently moved to Columbia from Williams College, has taught courses that Allan Bloom would have gagged on ("Imagologies: Media Philosophy").
During the 2000 campaign, for example, Ellen Chesler, a longtime friend of Mrs. Clinton's, organized meetings with groups of female professionals in New York, a group then viewed as hostile to her.
According to the view that North Korea's propaganda machine pounds into its citizens' minds, the North is a tiny nation besieged by hostile outside forces, one that survived despite decades of sanctions and can finally stand up to both its longtime Chinese ally and American enemy — all thanks to the strong "military-first" leadership of the Kim family and the country's nuclear arsenal.
