Word: confrontation
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that it matters too much, since new commissions are flooding in. "I don't write music to grab a large audience, though I'm pleased that I do," the composer says. "But success doesn't exactly help you confront that terrible blank page. When I sit down to write a piece of music, it's still the same old Michael Nyman, excited and terrified at the same time." His listeners are happy to go along for the ride...
During debate before the full council, another sponsor of the measure, Rudd W. Coffey '97, said that adding a mid-year election would force members to confront student concerns more frequently. He also said that having elections each semester would allow bored and unproductive members to exit gracefully...
...secure base and a solid lead in the polls this year, freeing Gingrich to travel on behalf of other candidates. His Democratic opponent, former Representative Ben Jones, has been reduced to showing up with bloodhounds at Gingrich rallies in other districts to dramatize how hard the man is to confront back home...
Watch out! The anti-democratic forces are on the prowl once again. Crusaders for term limits claim to have the public interest in mind. Yet their agenda conceals an unwillingness to confront the real problems of contemporary politics...
...newly autonomous area as a sanctuary. Says a Hamas activist in Gaza City: "Before, the Israeli army would chase our fighters, besiege their hideouts and catch them. Now those fighting the jihad can attack and then go back to their homes." Arafat's administration has been reluctant to confront the militants because these groups enjoy widespread approval among Palestinians for their anti-Israel exploits. One of Arafat's Cabinet members confides that his boss "has avoided the real job of cleaning up the extremists in Gaza...