Word: confrontation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...seemed like a good idea to have a sculpture that students could not simply avoid," said Williamson. "Adam's work certainly stands out and will force people to confront it whenever they walk through the courtyard...
Benazir Bhutto was one of the best political stories of the 1980s. Educated at Harvard and Oxford, she rallied from imprisonment and exile to return to Pakistan in 1986 and confront General Mohammed Zia ul-Haq, the country's military ruler and the man who executed her father, Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. When Zia's death in a mysterious plane crash in 1988 opened the way for Pakistan's first regular elections in a decade, Bhutto, only 35 and the mother of a two-month-old son, led her father's Pakistan People's Party through a raucous campaign...
...states protect children from having to testify in open court, allowing either videotaped or closed-circuit testimony. That protection will be tested by the Supreme Court. Last week the Justices agreed to consider two cases in which defendants argue that they were denied their Sixth Amendment right to confront their accusers. So far, the reforms are working. Although only an estimated 10% to 15% of sex-abuse complaints are prosecuted, about 90% of those end in conviction...
...meantime, Hochschild advises couples to confront honestly issues of housework and career before having children and even before marriage. Men who hope to talk women out of their career goals just as they may have talked them out of their virginity may find themselves talking to a divorce lawyer, she writes...
...Legislators are overwhelmed with the issues that confront them," Casey says, "They can't be experts on everything...