Word: confrontational
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...fires are finally extinguished and the survivors are pulled from the ash piles where the World Trade Center once stood, we must confront the terrible reality that an act of war has been committed on American soil. When the last comparable atrocity came screaming out of the sky over Pearl Harbor, the United States responded with a political and military campaign that resulted in nothing less than the destruction of the system that produced the attack. Surely a response of equal gravity is needed today: we must combat the threat of terrorism and do whatever is necessary to safeguard...
...spent several months in desultory travel around northern Kalimantan, gradually approaching the route that Manser would follow into Sarawak. They talked of various actions Manser might take when he came out, Kuenzli says, but never resolved anything. None of the schemes they discussed?bringing a group of Penan to confront Malaysian politicians at an international timber conference, for example?seemed sufficiently dramatic or effective...
...four banks?the Bank of China, China Construction Bank, Industrial and Commercial Bank of China and the Agricultural Bank of China?are in trouble. "That's when the revolution will begin," Chang writes. He asks a rhetorical question which, as he sees it, Chinese will have to confront from 2006 on: "Now that you have a choice (will you) keep your money with an insolvent institution or one that can pay you back?" The answer?like most of this book's conclusions?is simple: it will be time for this hypothetical depositor to "stand in line with the millions...
...Sharon is in fact digging Israel and himself into a very dangerous hole. Israel is already in crisis. And in such moments, nations, like people, need friends who're not only supportive, but are also prepared to help us see aspects of the problem we may be reluctant to confront. And certainly not the sort of friends who'd let us drive home drunk, simply because we've insisted that we know what we're doing...
...punitive damages at a total of $3 million and allows patients to sue in state court but only under more strict federal guidelines--Norwood's allies were throwing their remotes at the TV. "Charlie, how the hell can you do this?" groaned Kennedy when Norwood came back to confront his old gang. Norwood admitted he didn't know the details of the deal he had just made. House G.O.P. leaders rushed the bill to the floor while it was still being written. Democrats denounced it as an industry bill of rights. "If that plan wasn't written by the insurance...