Word: confrontational
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...hometown, reciprocating the hospitality Bush showed Putin at his Texas ranch last November. The following week they will be together again, this time in Rome, where they are expected to sign an agreement giving Russia a kind of junior partnership in NATO, the cold war military alliance created to confront the Soviet threat. Rice, who shares her boss's newfound optimism about Russia and its leader, fairly gushes when she describes the transformation. "To see the kind of relationship that Presidents Bush and Putin have developed and to see Russia firmly anchored in the West," she told Time last week...
...short, tax cut or no tax cut, we won’t have the funds to sustain today’s system. If Social Security continues in its present form, we will confront the impossible choice of cutting benefits over 30 percent or raising payroll taxes by 50 percent. The former would be politically unthinkable; the latter, economically catastrophic...
...addition to confronting crime, vandalism and irate drivers, the security, parking and museum guards had to confront the lowest wages at Harvard, as well as the greatest reduction in membership due to outsourcing...
Hard to believe, Ensign? Thank a shortsighted foreign policy that failed to confront Norse extremism...
...February meeting with the Radcliffe Union of Students (RUS), Faust said the merger marked a positive step for female undergraduates by forcing the College to confront women’s issues...