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As the Berlin Wall fell and the Cold War cooled, Cheney was charged with overseeing a Pentagon that was more fractious than usual.

The relationship at one point grew so fractious that OpenAI considered going to antitrust regulators to break out of the contract, The Wall Street Journal reported.

Hillquit ran a strong campaign under the unique conditions of that world-historical year, by all accounts, winning almost 150,000 votes across a fractious range of communities who were generally understood to be at odds.

Analysts said the vote was more about the country’s fractious domestic politics than a serious attempt to undertake what would be seen by Washington, European capitals and the Arab world as an extremely provocative move.

She also tussled with Bass behind closed doors in late January, as revealed in text messages obtained by The Times that highlighted an increasingly fractious relationship.