Word: confrontation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...developments in AIDS drugs and vaccine research programs confront doctors with fateful decisions in treating patients...
Despite the fast-forward quality of the presidential chapters, Reagan's America is a prodigious feat of research and popular history. The author has synthesized disparate incidents and uncovered revealing data. From here on, no scholar or journalist will be able to confront the history of the '80s without stopping off at Innocents at Home to see the Ronald Reagans: the fictional and the real...
...chief mechanism for influencing policy is a private relationship with Reagan. At the White House, associates remember the Vice President's clear discomfort with proposals aimed at rolling back civil rights legislation. After numerous meetings in the Oval Office, a few aides cornered Bush and urged him to confront Reagan. The Vice President was reluctant. Reagan, he said, had already made up his mind. In their sessions alone, Bush takes pains not to make Reagan uncomfortable. The President grumbles about overzealous advisers but never about Bush. The Vice President does not push...
Apart from questions about Hanford's future production, the authorities still confront the problem of what to do with radioactive nuclear wastes both at Hanford and elsewhere. Across the U.S. some 15,000 tons of the poisonous stuff are stored in aging containers by various utility companies; some 1,400 tons more are added every year. Congress thought it had solved the question, more or less, by deciding in 1982 that the Department of Energy would pick one gigantic burial site in the West (where there is more empty space) and one in the East (where most of the waste...
...Even David Durenberger, who as head of the Senate Intelligence Committee has had his share of harsh things to say about Reagan's swashbuckling, asks, "How in the world ((can)) a President make and implement policy in a world in which we're trying to anticipate events, rather than confront them after they have occurred...