Word: confrontation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...suicide value--about $1.5 million. The real estate agent handling the sale, Randall Bell, is an expert at moving "distressed" properties, having previously consulted, he says, on the sales of homes where Nicole Simpson, JonBenet Ramsey and Sharon Tate passed away, as it were. Not afraid to confront his chief marketing obstacle head on, Bell has renamed the property the Heaven's Gate Mansion, or the Gate for short--which, he says, is at least preferable to its usual media label: "the death house." --Reported by Paul Krueger/San Diego and Margot Hornblower/Los Angeles...
Japan will have to do better than that. It is vital for Hashimoto & Co. to show other Asian countries that they have the will to confront their financial problems. Otherwise there will be no one left capable of leading Asia out of its economic mess or of sparing the rest of the world similar trouble...
...past five years, Gore says, he has grown by helping Clinton confront one crisis after another. "It's a revelation the way excruciating world-class problems tend to come in clusters," he says. This was something of which he had no conception when the 39-year-old freshman Senator impulsively offered himself as a presidential candidate in 1988. There were few takers then. Now that he knows firsthand what the job costs and what it demands, is he still so eager to win it? Gore says he wants the job more than ever, but even that confession is hard...
...difficult to confront the medical community that doesn't trust us," he says...
...like East Palo Alto's arise in part from frustration over how to spend the dwindling pot of cash in low-income districts. But they also reflect a jostling for power, as blacks who labored hard to earn a place in central offices, on school boards and in classrooms confront a Latino population eager to grab a share of these positions...