One of the stranger things that's been in The Times in recent days was a DealBook opinion piece by Jack Grubman, a former telecommunications analyst who, after settling a conflict-of-interest lawsuit in 2003 with the Securities and Exchange Commission, has been permanently barred from the industry.
Citigroup says the charges would cover, in part, the costs of settling a conflict-of-interest probe.
The Kremlin and the guerrillas should come to their senses and settle a conflict that has left thousands of civilians dead and shamed Russian and Chechen leaders alike.
Equally sad — and also infuriating and painfully revealing — is a scene in which an assistant principal at Alex's middle school tries to settle a conflict between two boys who apparently had been fighting at recess.
A rarely enforced law against tables and chairs on sidewalks before noon on Sundays is being called upon to settle a conflict between brunching hipsters and church-going Brooklynites.
MOSCOW — Russia and the United States announced on Tuesday that they would seek to convene an international conference within weeks aimed at ending the civil war in Syria, jointly intensifying their diplomatic pressure on the combatants to peacefully settle a conflict that has taken more than 70,000 lives and left millions displaced and desperate.
Roger Cohen (NYT) CZECH REPUBLIC: CEMETERY PLAN -- The head of the North American Boards of Rabbis, Marc Schneier, said he believed officials were about to settle a conflict over a 13th-century Jewish cemetery site in Prague that has drawn protests from Jews worldwide.
It is in Carson emerging from the fog on a train platform to settle a conflict with an old friend before he is lost to time; Mrs. Patmore earnestly meddling in Daisy's sad love life and Daisy thanking her for her true friendship; Bates's charming plan to lend the hapless Mr. Molesley money to get back on his feet; Molesley's staring up at the starry night and gently wondering about the future.
It depicts Ferreira as a gang leader, who is called in to settle a conflict between rivaling groups.
Antietam, at the dawn of modern warfare, was meant to settle a civil conflict, one that had followed decades of deliberation, debate, and negotiation.
