Word: confrontation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Radcliffe authorized patch-work repairs on the building, but didn't confront the question that is only now--more than a year after problems were first noticed--being asked: Is the damage a result of a fundamental flaw in design, construction, or building materials...
...painting; in Provincetown, Mass. An admirer of Cézanne, Tworkov worked with bold yet lyrical brushstrokes to build up fields of color, which he played against one another. Like many abstract expressionists, he found his subject in the act of painting. He once said, "My hope is to confront the picture without a ready technique or prepared attitude...
...Faculty-administration relations, serving on the Faculty Council and the Committee on Undergraduate Education (CUE). He says his two years on the council have been especially interesting because "you can see first-hand how not just the Faculty but the administration is thinking about the important issues that confront the University." As a member of the CUE and as chairman of the Committee on Folklore and Mythology, Nagy says he has been able to work towards his goal of greater student-Faculty contact...
...Office of Management and Budget, all saw the gathering storm and waited for the President to confront reality. It happened slowly. In the next few meetings, as they talked about "tax reform" and closing loopholes as well as raising new money, Reagan seemed to be walking on eggs. He kept looking for other ways to shrink the deficits. There were none that he would accept, such as delaying the tax cuts voted last year. The figures grew worse, and the secret polls brought around by Richard Wirthlin showed the public souring on Reagan's presidency. Something began to change...
...with one of the highest tuition rates in the country. Harvard has not survived the student aid storm unseathed. Officials must this year confront a growing perception among potential applicants that Harvard is too expensive. For Harvard, this has been worsened by the national attention given to Bok's annual report, which suggested that the federal government could save on aid by giving it only to those students with relatively high board scores...