Word: confrontational
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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It’s tempting to just say Democrats should grow some cajones and confront the right-wing taboos head on. But until Americans look beyond the “liberal” label, there’s not a lot Democratic politicians can do about the Right’s knuckle-headed policies. And if voters don’t get informed, our rude awakening is going to arrive, sooner or later, in the form of a national economic smackdown...
...been well preserved by a life of "no coffee, a lot of spinach and that sea air," says Mad About You's Paul Reiser, who is co-writer and producer. In Popeye's Voyage: The Search for Pappy, the updated Popeye will hunt for his dad and confront relationship issues. For example, Reiser asks, "with a woman in his life, how does he get away with just sailing all the time...
...include property giant Cheung Kong Holdings, one of Hong Kong's biggest property developers, and the ports, retailing and telecom conglomerate Hutchison Whampoa. It's a question that Li, as well as investors in his publicly traded companies, which have a combined market value of $74 billion, must inevitably confront in the coming years as he attempts to safeguard his immense legacy...
Visitors to the Taj Mahal all confront the same eternal mystery: How could the people who fashioned the world's most serene monument to love also build on its doorstep one of the ugliest, filthiest and most cacophonous cities in existence? If the heartbroken Shah Jahan's mausoleum for his wife Mumtaz Mahal is everything India should be--spiritual, awesome, peaceful--Agra, with its choking traffic, litter-strewed dirt roads and throngs of grotesque beggars is everything it unfortunately still is. "This not what I expected," says Camilla, 22, a psychology student visiting from Sweden. "Not at all. I mean...
...Gyanendra has proposed holding new elections within a year but says he won't restore Parliament until the country's infighting political parties unite to confront the Maoists and save the economy. Meanwhile, the Maoist rebellion is getting uglier, with guerrillas said to be abducting whole villages to reinforce their own ranks. The government has banned demonstrations in the capital, but that has only swelled the crowds further. Police have twice arrested as many as 1,000 protesters...