Apart from a courtroom drama about a land-mass dispute between an isthmus and an island, which Ruhl wrote in fourth grade, and which her teacher declined to stage — "Perhaps that's why I'm writing plays now, to exorcize my psychic battle with Mr. Spangenberger," Ruhl says — she didn't start writing plays until her junior year at Brown University, in 1995.
Some people, including those opposed to the kinds of gun control measures routinely proposed in the aftermath of mass killings, dispute the claim that such rampages have escalated.
The education sector is not yet comparable, either in its disruptive capacity or the level of repression it has faced, to those who carried out mass industrial disputes of the 1970s and 80s.
He predicted "a mass of disputes over interpretation of the law".
Some analysts argue that this week's breakdown will bring a mass of trade disputes, particularly over rich countries' farm subsidies.
The 1980s were a difficult, unsettled age of bitter industrial disputes, mass unemployment, peace camps and civil unrest set in the anxious international context of a cold war threatening to become hot.
Henry is generally credited with initiating the English Reformation – the process of transforming England from a Catholic country to a Protestant one – though his progress at the elite and mass levels is disputed, and the precise narrative not widely agreed.
The basic dispute between mass experience and individual experience has been therefore perhaps less keenly felt as an everyday fact in writing in the 20th and 21st centuries than it has been in other art forms.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 8 — It used to be that when a campaign had an argument with a news report, it put out a mass e-mail message disputing the offending item.
The agencies that enforce the nation's labor and antidiscrimination laws also find this secrecy particularly troubling, for it shields from public view workplace disputes involving mass layoffs, plant closings and charges of discrimination and sexual harassment.
Mr Buffett harrumphs that derivatives are dangerous timebombs: he even calls them financial weapons of mass destruction.There is no disputing that derivatives in essence, contracts such as futures or options, usually linked to a financial variable, that trigger payments at some future date are increasingly complex, nor that top bosses often fail to grasp the risks they involve.
