Word: approach
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...including myself, argued the importance of identifying her as an employee, the women became increasingly angered. Rational argument on both sides quickly disappeared, and we were accused of being sexist, taking a cold and clinincal approach to the event...
...Capitol Hill, just like he has on a basketball court," says former Army Secretary Clifford Alexander, a Washington lawyer who plays ball with Brown on Saturday mornings. "He makes his opinions clear in a way that seems logical and fair, and he never boxes people into a corner. His approach is designed to get the job done...
...Explains Dr. Stanley Weiss of the department of preventive medicine at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey in Newark: "If you talk to people in middle-class America, AIDS seems a significant threat because a lot of their other problems are under control. But if you approach the poor in the inner cities, they don't see the disease as such a threat. They have so many problems besides AIDS that it is hard to focus on this one issue." People do not pay much attention to guidelines about safe sex, Weiss points out, if they have...
...suppress any attempt by its members to hold public demonstrations or marches. The statement proposes that the timetable for introducing trade-union pluralism should be reached at "round- table talks" that include the government, Solidarity leader Lech Walesa and other groups. Jaruzelski left little doubt that his new approach to Solidarity was motivated by the realization that his only hope for revitalizing the Polish economy lay in enlisting the cooperation of the country's disaffected workers. It is also a tacit acknowledgment that both Jaruzelski's economic policies and his efforts to stifle Walesa and Solidarity have failed. When...
...problems of drug abuse, homelessness and illiteracy have never seemed more menacing. Instead of vigorously attacking these problems, Reagan has continued to espouse his laissez-faire philosophy that the market or private individuals will solve them, leaving only national defense to the government. So far, this free-market approach has generated mostly record greed and selfishness, rather than solutions...