Word: confrontational
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...genomics revolution, but also stressed that America faced immediate and very critical health problems, notably the epidemic of obesity among the young. "It's every bit as threatening as the terrorist threat," he said, adding it would lead to a level of disease and chronic illness that would confront the country with a crushing economic burden...
Right now, we are faced with a choice. We can confront the evil before us or to allow it to grow. The possibility that Iraq or North Korea could acquire nuclear or highly lethal chemical weapons poses a deadly threat to their peoples, their regions and the world. The free peoples of the world, especially the French, Germans and Russians, need to fall in behind the United States to rid the Earth of its worst dictators. Just ask yourself, whose beliefs do you think will begin to build lasting peace, and whose will result in a more destructive...
...Free nations will not allow the United Nations to fade into history as an ineffective, irrelevant debating society." GEORGE W. BUSH, U.S. President, challenges the United Nations to confront Saddam Hussein...
...bring attention to the so-called prevalent issue of false accusations of sexual assault in the black community and make no attempts whatsoever to bring serious attention to the larger issue of sexual assault itself. We as a black community and as a society will never be able to confront the issues surrounding sexual assault head on until we are able to recognize its existence, acknowledge its prevalence and then deconstruct it fully. If we spent time educating each other on the tragedy of sexual assault and the damage that it causes to people’s lives, then maybe...
...Rangel hopes to confront that idea head-on with his proposal for a broader draft...