Word: confrontation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...every classic story of courage triumphing over adversity, the hero or heroine must first fall into the depths of despair, rise again, then confront the enemy, all the while proving the skeptics wrong...
...number with their identification code to learn the results. While Brown, a Maryland-based clinical psychologist experienced in substance abuse treatment, insists that the code will protect customers' anonymity, critics charge that confidentiality after the fact isn?t the main issue. Privacy is the issue, when parents and schools confront children with demands for urine samples so that they can be tested for drug use. Moreover, professional testers say that idiosyncrasies in sampling time or diet could alter results seriously. Some herbal teas, for example, can give false indications of heroin use. Personal Health and Hygiene, the company formed...
...Washington--and most of that work is done in Congress. "He obviously has to go through Congress to get things done," says Leon Panetta, the outgoing chief of staff. "But he can't be seen as tied to its failings. He has to use the bully pulpit effectively and confront Congress effectively." As other aides point out, legislative action is required for 80% of the items on Clinton's to-do list: offering health-care coverage to every American child, financing the first two years of college through Hope Scholarships, and extending the Brady Bill to wife beaters...
...heatedly protest the lack of flaky tuna in the Annenberg salad bar. Our parents traveled to Birmingham and Mobile, joining with southern blacks to challenge segregation and discrimination; we bravely venture to the Malkin Athletic Center and demand that the school provide improved athletic facilities. Obviously, the issues that confront our lives here at Harvard are significant. However, beyond extending dinner hours or increasing the celerity of e-mail lies an international arena full of pressing humanitarian concerns. We are often so involved with our lives here on campus that these world-wide problems are relegated to a back burner...
...sending off Madeleine Albright to challenge Saddam Hussein to a wrestling match, but we are asking her to help us decide at what times we should wrestle. How tough to be in Bosnia? How to lessen the never-ending tensions of the Middle East? How to confront the emergence of China? How often should the U.S. come to the rescue of struggling young democracies? We are handing over a significant portion of power to a woman--asking her to provide insight and judgment on matters which frequently mean life for some and death for others...