Word: confrontation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While the President showed that he can still do wonders with a carefully wrought address, the aftershocks from the Tower report are likely to continue. He might be forced to confront two remaining aides who have been criticized for their behavior in the Iran initiative. Secretary of State George Shultz and Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger objected last week to the Tower report's critique of their performance in Iranscam. According to the document, the two officials "simply distanced themselves from the program. They protected the record as to their own positions on this issue. They were not energetic in attempting...
...Tyrones seem like an average middle class family of 1912 as they sit around the table gossiping about the neighbors. But in the course of four acts, and almost as many hours, they disintegrate into four tragic shells, forced to confront the painful truths of their wasted lives...
This new education, which gives Frere Jacques a whole new meaning, can help your child develop the capacities to become a fulfilled speaking subject, and prepare him to confront successfully the challenge offered by each of life's aporias. He'll learn to undermine the binary oppositions that separate work and play, mom and dad, fact and fiction. Of course, this creates problems when Junior lies to mom and swears he's telling the truth...
...place created to heal ailing students and to confront illnesses in students who don’t feel like taking exams. They fulfill the latter function well, but they are far off from fulfilling the other--unless sleeplessness is some kind of revolutionary new cure...
...former colonial subject of the power and wealth that made such a place possible: "Fifty years ago there would have been no room for me on the estate; even now my presence was a little unlikely." Worse, having come upon the landscape of his dreams, Naipaul must also confront the intrusions of reality: "I had seen everything as a kind of perfection, perfectly evolved. But I had hardly begun to look, the land and its life had hardly begun to shape itself about me, when things began to change...