Word: confrontation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When George Bush became President last week, he inherited that mountainous load, along with a 74-month economic boom, the longest peacetime expansion in the modern era. Bush, who once ridiculed Reagan's policies as "voodoo economics," must now confront both sides of the Reaganomics legacy. In doing so, he will turn for economic advice to a profession that is struggling to find new ways of understanding the unprecedented boom-and-borrow cycle of the past eight years...
...pressure of the daily routine at Middlesex, the issue of gender is often lost in the crises of the moment. But the larger number of women at Middlesex and other courthouses across the state inevitably leads lawyers, litigants and judges to confront their own attitudes about gender...
...hasn't already, Bush should reconsider and confront Derwinski privately before the Senate confirmation hearings. If the nominee responds with hems and haws and, as seems likely, can give no good reason for why he ignored his colleagues' pasts, Bush will have a moral obligation to dump Derwinski...
...Parched by the lack of rain, the Western forests of the U.S., including Yellowstone National Park, went up in flames, also igniting a bitter conservationist controversy. And on many of the country's beaches, garbage, raw sewage and medical wastes washed up to spoil the fun of bathers and confront them personally with the growing despoliation of the oceans...
...failings, China's effort has produced results. The population growth rate, once among the highest in the world, has been slashed in half, to 1.4%. And the Chinese are determined to reduce the rate still further. The same formidable task will face other developing countries as they confront the population bomb. But confront it they must...