Word: confrontation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...DREAM last spring about the day when he would get to sit down and play a kind of Russian roulette with the President. The stakes would be very high. The whole government would be held hostage while the country waited to see who would blink. The House Speaker would confront Bill Clinton with a choice: Sign a historic balanced-budget plan on Republican terms or watch the government shut down. ''Which of the two of us do you think cares more about the government not showing up?" Gingrich asked...
...office. "Said HRC very upset re misa(ppropriation) of funds and wanted them out of there," the document says. The furor over each new piece of evidence is increasing pressure for Hillary Clinton to deal publicly with her credibility problem, notes TIME's Viveca Novac. "She may have to confront the 'Hillary lied' allegations head on with a press conference." Novak says what's truly baffling is the actions of the White House dealing with the matter. "Firing the travel office was within their rights. It's their handling of the scandal that's been so seemingly inept...
...columnists, we love to receive feedback. Even though we try to confront every single contrary argument in our articles, legitimate points always escape. What's more, a letter to the editors criticizing or, once in a while, praising a column means one thing for sure--someone read that column. For most of us, the knowledge that ideas have been transmitted is gratification enough...
...should reflect, then, about what it means for a TF--a human being (in most cases) just like you, who may or may not be as smart and talented as you are, who may even have gone to a second-rate college such as Yale or Princeton--to confront 30 absolutely candid evaluations of his or her character...
...University's obligation to keep common rooms and dining halls devoid of non-secular decorations is just as clear as the case for classrooms. All students have equal access to these areas and should not have to confront religious symbolism when using them. The presence of one group's symbols in a junior common room, for example, might discourage another group from having its meetings there. That is not what common rooms...