But as the Taliban and other militants continue their attacks on government officials, aid workers and now election workers, and armed factions are still causing sporadic clashes in northern Afghanistan, it looks more and more likely that the election process will be increasingly disruptive.
Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase, and the rest are not only ripping off American workers but also other factions of the capitalist economy in a kind of post-modern replay of the Gilded Age.
At the simmering end of a 26-day strike by 17,000 workers last month, a faction of laborers who were furious over wages and living conditions began setting fire to the construction site at the Jirau Dam.
Most Germans at work act like they are under attack the whole time: defending their unconditional rights, demeaning their co-workers and grouping into obstructive factions, while Anglo-Saxon thinking remains perpetually positive.
To make matters worse, if Beijing has to contend with large numbers of unemployed migrant workers, the leadership - or factions within it - may be tempted to drum up xenophobia as a way of shoring up public support.
He then had a dispute with Unite Here, an organization for hotel, restaurant and garment workers that had split into two factions, as well as with another union.
The group say they do not blame the union's leadership, but are alarmed by the increasing influence of the Socialist Workers party, Workers Liberty and the Socialist party factions.
Among those challenges is a faction of workers pushing for a contract through new union leadership with the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 18, which has been locked in a battle over a new contract since this spring.
Eventually, two factions emerged; one group of workers desired to return to work while another wished to continue the strike.
Six aid workers were kidnapped.A rebel faction in Sierra Leone released over 200 hostages, including civilians, Nigerian soldiers, and British and other UN monitors.
