Word: confrontation
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Returning students had to confront deactivated PAC codes (with no phone bill delinquency to hold accountable), rooms without even common-room lines activated and incorrect directory information that was impossible to change in time for the publication of the student phone book. Some students, lacking any working lines in their rooms, resorted to Centrex phones for on-campus calls. Unfortunately, a few of these were out of commission and in need of repair...
Other faculty members call for increased use of resources to confront the changing international scene...
...early emphasis of the Kennedy School, understandably was on the American economy. Internationally, most [work] was done in a Cold War context," says Dillon Professor of International Affairs, Emeritus Raymond Vernon, a friend of Nye for more than 25 years. "But that's over now, and now we confront a world that is experimenting in all sorts of variants of social safety nets, health care, business-government relations. And each of them is a sort of laboratory...
...journeys from Vermont to Washington State to confront her father and clear her mind before the birth of her child. What she finds is a feeble old man, clothed horribly in rags of strength and charm, too confused to admit the truth he has always denied. This is the best of the novel, as Julia realizes that there will be no healing resolution because, as usual, life's story lines are murky...
Cantwell in these profiles and her own also manages to confront the career versus traditional lifestyle expectations of a woman in those years. We watch her win struggles, and we glimpse the attitudes towards working mothers in an office dominated by women. "I might have stayed at home. But if I had, I would have been unhappy, and not simply because a college education was going down a drain. To live in New York, to be part of New York, I had to work." And work she did, in one of the few atmospheres that accepted pregnant women, "a pregnant...