Word: confrontation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That the demonstrators could not confront the recruiter "points out whose side the deans are on, whose side the University is on and whose side the police are on," another brigade organizer said...
...recorded him in the act of negotiating kickbacks. That is when the second good deal came along for the agent-a union-contract clause stipulating that an employee fired for cause must be notified within 30 days of committing the offense. Pan Am did not want to confront the employee until it had prepared an airtight case, and that took longer than 30 days. Thanks to the technicality, the kickback-collecting employee is still a Pan Am purchasing agent...
...present form remains a question. Ironically, the major drawback of many of the writers in Science Fiction, Today and Tomorrow is their almost paranoid concern with the purity of science fiction in the future. Like cold War Warriors faced with detente, the once isolated science fiction writer must confront a vast new audience that contains many of his old enemies...
...challenge is at home, in the economic and energy problems that can no longer be ignored. They are complex and interconnected, and in moving to confront them, Ford and his advisers run dangerous and inescapable risks. The key to the present economic malaise
Last Refuge. Unfortunately, the Amazon Basin is the last refuge for tribes like the Waimiri and Atroari. "The Indians resent the speed and aggressiveness with which the road is being built," says João Americo Peret, a Brazilian Indian expert. "But since they can't confront the road-building machines, they take it out on the FUNAI people...