Word: confrontation
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Phase II board, however, would confront a long series of troublesome questions all its own. Should a company that was prevented by the freeze from raising prices to offset a huge wage increase be allowed an exceptionally large price boost? Should unionists whose pay has lagged behind that of workers performing the same job in another company be permitted an exceptionally high wage boost? Should a company that has been unable to fill low-wage jobs get an exemption from the guidelines so that it can offer whatever pay raises are needed to attract workers? The Administration is prepared...
...meeting last night SDS formed a committee to collect data and write an article to refute Herrnstein's claim that I.Q. tests measure intelligence. The group also decided to continue to confront Herrnstein in class...
...elevation of My Lai from routine to scandal to archetype took a decision from the nation, its press and its people. And the massacre became important because it was a human act, one committed by individual human beings with M-16s, bayonets, and grenade launchers, confronting a group of Vietnamese on the ground. Horror though it was, the massacre was more palatable than the real horror of the war, which is the mechanization of slaughter, the progressive removal of any elements of the human will from the act of killing. To confront Charlie Company was to confront a group...
...perverted sense of status and meaning to the lives of many steel-workers. In addition, the often tenuous economic position of the white majority is thought to be threatened by black advances. It is easier to direct alienation against what seems to be a visible threat than to confront the more fundamental but also more remote and impersonal capitalist power structure...
Pierre Vallieres: You can be sure of that, there is no worry. The FLQ is alive and well. Most important, the events of October inspired people to the realization that it is possible to confront the system by other ways than the electoral system. In October, many Quebecois related to the actions carried...