Word: confrontation
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Rawlings, who must now confront corruption and bring the economy under control, is an admirer of Libya's Muammar Gaddafi; he once described Libya as a "revolutionary dream." Rawlings has replaced the Limann government with a Provisional National Defense Council and plans a support system of Libyan-style local "defense committees." U.S. and British officials fear that Rawlings may turn to Libya for help. But no political shift will solve the basic economic problems that are stirring the real unrest in a part of the world where ties with the West are already strained...
...manifestations of a failure to come to grips with the future by resorting to methods of the past. The social fabric both East and West is straining at the seams, and the apparent desire to impose order where there is none is evidence of a disturbing unwillingness to confront forces for change...
Finally, Ehrlichman writes, "Nixon wondered aloud if Henry needed psychiatric care," and urged, "Talk to him, John." Added Ehrlichman: "I could think of no way to talk to Henry about psychiatric care. I had no confidence that that was what would help Henry, nor could I bring myself to confront Henry with the President's apparent lack of confidence in his mental stability...
Completing his fifth month as Prime Minister of a nation noted for swinging-door governments (41 in 36 years), Giovanni Spadolini felt secure enough to confront 57.5 million fellow Italians with a sobering economic warning. The country is sliding into recession at an alarming rate he said in a televised speech a month ago. Unless inflation is brought under control, warned Spadolini, Italy could end up as a Mediterranean banana republic...
...exchange the order of the numbers in an addition problem without changing the answer to the problem." According to Gerry Murphy, head of the math department at Hackley School in Tarrytown, N.Y., Saxon also tries to confront two fundamental weaknesses that afflict most Algebra I texts: the lack of a sense of continuity and connection among topics, and student failure to remember the material already covered. Saxon presents the material in small linked units, without the traditional division into chapters. Saxon treats the problem of retention by the obvious and old-fashioned device of a large number of daily cumulative...