Word: confrontational
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...children ages 3 and 4, said she explicitly asks on party invitations that guests give only art supplies--and she keeps her kids' gift expectations low by making her home TV-free during the day. Shields got applause--but also sparked debate. "We have to raise our kids to confront commercial realities," said Len Ingber. "We're not Amish...
...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...
...step, says Athas, goes straight to the heart of the problem: The sites? authors themselves, most of who seem to be enthusiastic anorexics. "We?re planning to go to the sites and ask the creators to take them down," Athas says. That task - which will force ANAD educators to confront anorexics? infamous defensive talents - is not expected to be easy, or even particularly productive, adds Athas. "Most everyone has told us it will be a waste of our time...
...rioters' thuggery and their attack on their own neighborhood, where he has built up his business for 30 years. He's thinking of organizing other Asian businesses to support the looted white-owned firms. He's doubtful that the rioters had any coherent politics; they showed up downtown to confront a rally by the racist National Front, which was banned, so they turned their Molotov cocktails on the police. Slowly they were pushed back toward his neighborhood, where, he says, "some of them took advantage of a situation that was out of control." But even this pillar of the community...
...comedy about AIDS? What's so funny about a virus for which there is no cure? A: Nothing! Just as there was nothing funny about apartheid. The word comedy is misleading. I don't make jokes about AIDS. I aim to make people laugh at their prejudices and confront their fears. Humor is a great weapon, an extraordinary leveler. You can counter all the misinformation with humor. Q: I assume you're referring to President Thabo Mbeki's controversial stance on AIDS? A: You know, 99% of the world knows that HIV leads to AIDS. We're governed...