Word: confrontation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...make a profit." In West Germany, Kurt Richebacher, chief economist of the Dresdner Bank, speaks of "a grave profitability crisis." In Belgium, Baron Leon Lambert, chairman of the Compagnie Bruxelles Lambert, flatly declares that European regimes are "impotent before the enormousness of the political, economic and social problems that confront...
...Church of Scientology, founded 23 years ago by a science-fiction writer, does not believe in turning the other cheek. In a key church exercise called ''auditing," members are taught, for a handsome fee, to confront long-forgotten traumas-sometimes even from previous incarnations-and then to scourge these so-called "engrams" that have been troubling their subconscious...
...court's decision means that in states that cut off Medicaid funds, poor women will have to confront not only the trauma that almost inevitably accompanies the decision to have an abortion, but also the problem of finding enough money to pay for one. Women who cannot scrape up the $150 needed for a typical first trimester abortion are certainly unlikely to have enough money to raise a child under decent conditions. They are far more likely to turn to cheap, unsafe abortions, or to go unwillingly through with the pregnancy and give the child up for adoption. The court...
Guerrillas rarely confront the army, but concentrate on dominating the country's 6.2 million black villagers. In sensitive areas, the government has herded blacks into "protected villages" in order to cut off food supplies to the guerrillas. International organizations estimate that there are now half a million villagers obliged to live behind barbed wire from dusk to dawn. The tragedy is that the army often cannot differentiate between gunman and civilian-hence the high death rate...
...season when college and university commencement speakers exhort the capped and gowned to go forth and confront the world. A sampling of what 14 of the best, the brightest and the most beautiful in the class of 77 see ahead for themselves...