Word: confrontational
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...business and government leaders who will gather in New York City at the end of the month for the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum--shouldn't just trot out our beliefs as if they were some divine revelation. If we are honest, we need to confront two uncomfortable truths. The first is that globalization has losers as well as winners. When an economy first opens itself up to international competition through trade, those in protected industries and traditional occupations may indeed see declines in their income. Second, there's a time factor involved; globalization may reduce poverty...
...Qaeda and Taliban resistance. To date, only two Americans, including one from the CIA, have been killed by enemy fire (17 have died in accidents, including one who may have been a suicide). But the potential for mayhem remains huge and, by some Army assessments, growing as Americans confront what General Tommy Franks, head of U.S. Central Command, estimates to be about a dozen ever shifting pockets of resistance. Those dangers are exacerbated as American forces are drawn into local feuds and warlord ambitions. As the double-bang plot against the embassy illustrates, it is the multiplicity of perils...
...many people say that they’re not feminist either because of the negative connotations or because feminism has no place here anymore. Whether they want to admit it or not, women still confront inequality and cannot walk down the street without the fear or risk of being violated. The battles fought in the twentieth century may have been successful, but they’re not over. Both women and men alike need to continue to fight for feminism because gender inequity has not disappeared—except perhaps from our national consciousness...
...which we imagined had shown us the depths to which a despot could sink. To watch bin Laden sit in delight and create a skyscraper with his hand--like a child playing Here's the Church, Here's the Steeple--then slowly crumple it into a fist was to confront not only the nature of evil but how much we still don't know about...
...which we imagined had shown us the depths to which a despot could sink. To watch bin Laden sit in delight and create a skyscraper with his hand?like a child playing Here's the Church, Here's the Steeple?then slowly crumple it into a fist was to confront not only the nature of evil but how much we still don't know about...