Word: confrontation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Frazier should confront the press. Thefact that he hasn't should raise questions," saidEngel
...spasm was yet another manifestation of ethnic tensions that confront General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev with a formidable challenge. The Nagorno- Karabakh dispute has revived the historic hostility between Armenians, who are largely Christians, and Azerbaijanis, who are mainly Muslims. Armenia's call for restoration of the enclave and its 160,000 people to Armenian control has been rebuffed by the central government, which fears that any such adjustment might trigger territorial demands elsewhere...
...Angel Heart) will never be a better director. He has always had a taste and talent for sudden violence, for making it explode out of ordinary contexts. That talent is well employed in Mississippi Burning: a scene in which a black congregation emerges from an evening prayer meeting to confront a silent group of hooded Klansmen, clubs at the ready, is a little masterpiece of terror...
...begins to shift his focus away from ownership of the letter, and he begins to directly confront his own relationship with his father. Part of him wishes to see it as a work of love: "If the letter is attention given to me, sending it out in all these copies is proof, or is giving my attention to those on the list," he says, trying to rationalize his mother's decision to share the letter...
...need a president who will be honest about the economy. A president needs to confront the $150 billion deficit, not spend yet another administration ignoring and pushing it into our future. We need plans to fuel trade and raise the dollar. Neither candidate has been honest enough to campaign on a platform of increasing taxes, yet every president--including Reagan--has raised taxes. Bush's vow of "no new taxes" is demagogic. Dukakis has not provided an answer to this dilemma, but he will not do away with the needed social agenda to gain fiscal solvency...