Word: confrontation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...representing Harvard, the crew lends a certain degree of respectability to the Egyptian government. And in the past, Egypt has received a lot of press concerning the event. Yet, this year, the Harvard administration chose not to confront the issue of its tacit support for Egypt...
Wylie asked Sullivan to confront state legislators with the issue in a meeting this Wednesday night...
...helped Franklin Roosevelt redesign the Federal Government and change the American way of life. He is still around Washington, a peppery 73, keeping an eye on things. He believes that few creative changes have been made in our domestic affairs since 1938, the year Roosevelt began to turn to confront Adolf Hitler. It is Corcoran's further observation, delivered with charming acerbity, that we now need many fundamental readjustments in our national life-style of the magnitude of those F.D.R. instituted, and that if Gerald Ford does not soon get the picture he could end up like Herbert Hoover...
...very title, From Under the Ruins, suggests that the Russian people, long buried under the weight of Marxist ideology, must break loose to confront the future by drawing upon Russia's pre-revolutionary past. Specifically, the book reaches back to a famous collection of articles called Vekhi (Landmarks) published a few years after Russia's abortive 1905 revolution. Among the contributors to Vekhi were Christian Philosopher Nikolai Berdyayev and Liberal Politician Pyotr Struve. Vekhi promoted a return to Russia's traditional spiritual values rather than an uncritical acceptance of Western materialism. "The inner life of the individual...
...strip mining on land, and as the election returns suggested, environmentalism can be a potent political issue. Conversely, to decrease energy consumption would slow the economy, which seems too weak to stand much strain. No matter what President Ford and the congressional leaders suggest, they will confront criticism...