Word: confrontation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...said she wants to be above party and be seen serving only the interests of the country. In that role, she will endorse candidates of various parties. However, that stance leaves her without any organized support that she can rely on across the range of political issues she must confront...
Despite the bishops' consensus, grumbling persisted. Bishop Michael Kenny of Juneau was disappointed that the statement did not confront the perception of "injustice" in the case. While conceding that "there really was little this group could do," Bishop Leroy Matthiesen of Amarillo, Texas, an ally of Hunthausen's in the antinuclear cause, noted that the long debate would surely send a warning to Rome through Laghi, who calmly observed the proceedings...
Kennedy's combativeness often works to his advantage. Before a debate during the primary race, Kennedy's staff heard that his principal rival, George Bachrach, intended to confront him with a question about Citizens Energy's possible links with Libya. A check showed there was no connection. When Bachrach leveled the charge, Kennedy sprang a counterattack. "Libya offered Sirhan Sirhan asylum after he killed my father," he said, eyes blazing. "For you to think for one second that Citizens Energy would have anything to do with Libya is just totally off base." The race was never close after that...
...make a dent in the burgeoning budget deficit, Congress must confront either the possibility of a tax increase sometime in the next two years or a loosening of the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings noose. This could be the real test of whether the White House and the Democratic Congress will end up seeking compromise or confrontation. Reagan is sure to oppose any outright tax increase, just as he has done in the past. And the Democrats will be as wary as ever of being out front on the issue. But some package of spending cuts and revenue raising seems necessary...
...Land Where My Fathers Died, a lawyer in a small Massachusetts town takes on the case of a man accused of murdering a local physician. Archimedes Nionakis knows that his client is innocent. He also realizes that in trying to find the real killer, "I was going to confront nothing as pure and recognizable as evil but a sorrowful litany of flaws, of failures, of mediocre hopes, and of vanity." During the course of his investigation, Nionakis finds his already low-voltage ambition dimmed by the tawdriness he encounters around him. Knowing that his prosperous relatives wonder about...