Word: confrontational
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...Pyongyang, suspended since early 2001. But when Assistant Secretary of State Kelly took off for North Korea in early October, the purpose of his mission had changed dramatically. The CIA had briefed Bush in August about its new intelligence on Pyongyang's secret enrichment program. The President decided to confront Kim with the evidence, but the Administration first shared it with several congressional leaders and key countries that the U.S. would need to help lean on Pyongyang: Japan, South Korea, China and Russia...
...ways, the U.S. may be using forces too big for their own good. In snippets of conversations intercepted by U.S. intelligence, al-Qaeda leaders have instructed cell members simply to lie low when Americans descend because "there's too many of them." Says Colonel James Huggins: "They won't confront us in our superior numbers," which makes them almost impossible...
...weeks now finds Connell, 76, a fastidious expert on Aquinas who wrote his doctoral thesis on angels, being heckled at Mass, reading editorials demanding his resignation and, since last week, facing a tough government inquiry. The widespread view that he has tried harder to stifle bad publicity than to confront this crisis is undermining his church - which has already seen regular Mass attendance drop 20% since 1998. It can be no consolation either to Collins or Connell that other Catholic prelates around the world are in similar states of siege, as the church comes to terms with its persistent pedophiles...
...enough. Where we were told two weeks ago that only our righteous military might could save us, the administration now calls for a “peaceful resolution” in North Korea. Before news of North Korea, Bush warned that “our security requires that we confront both [terror cells and outlaw regimes], and the United States military is capable of confronting both.” The administration does not dare mention the military in reference to North Korea today, instead calling for work through “diplomatic channels at this point, in consultation with...
...can’t buy food. So the question every week is whether the son will be healthy and the family can’t eat, or whether he’ll be sick and there’ll be food on the table. These same questions do not confront the office workers and executives who work in these same buildings during the day and often earn six-figure salaries. These people are able to afford doctors and medicine to cure the slightest sneeze. The policies of cleaning companies, and the eagerness of institutions and buildings to subcontract work...