Word: confrontation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...release this week of a new report showing wide demographic gaps among the undergraduate Houses is forcing College officials to confront a problem most say they would prefer to forget about...
...have its greatest on land based ballistic missiles, on which Moscow relies much more heavily than does the U.S. and leaves unaffected such American weapons as the Cruise missile and intercontinental bombers. Therefore, when and if the two sides get down to business in Geneva, the Administration will likely confront a Kremlin counter-proposal which it finds as unpalatable as Moscow doubtless will find Reagan's. Then the hard part will begin. The $1.5 million question is whether both sides are genuinely interested in compromising in order to find common ground in which case Reagan's program is valid...
...hundred and fifty students at an anti-war meeting agree to confront Bok with demands to end what they call Harvard's complicity in the Vietnam war, threatening to occupy another building if the University does not meet their demands. The threatened occupation never materialized...
Hostility to the Angels exemplifies another, more general, problem liberals must confront--the unwillingess to let people solve their problems by themselves. Hit-and-run reformers with "we know what's good for you" attitudes will never provide the lasting solutions to problems that community-based efforts can achieve: Citizens' groups made up of ordinary neighborhood residents can establish a pattern of lawfulness in a community, one that an externally imposed "solution" would find difficult to match...
...beat can offer--shooting away bums, dispersing crowds of rowdy kids, and knowing the difference between neighborhood "regulars" and "strangers". As James Q. Wilson and George L. Kelling pointed out in an article in the March Atlantic, the return of foot-patrols would not necessarily reduce crime, but would confront the "sense that the street is disorderly, a source of distasteful, worrisome encounters...