Word: confrontational
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...people like no one else can. But you have to have a setback in order to have a comeback." T's setback came in 1995, when he was diagnosed with, no kidding, T-cell lymphoma. After initially keeping the disease a secret, the man baptized Lawrence Tureaud decided to confront cancer head on. "I said to myself, 'T, you used to kick ass in the 'hood. You joined the Army so you could kick butt. And you scared of this?' I decided to bring cancer out of the closet. Now I wear my cancer like I wear my blackness...
...transaction is emblematic of industry on the verge of an environmental transition. Congress may have snubbed the Kyoto accord, and global bureaucrats may be stumbling over the details of a carbon-emissions trading system. But corporations, against the run of play, are beginning to confront the climate conundrum the best way they know how--as a business opportunity. John Browne, CEO of BP Amoco, and Mark Moody-Stuart, chairman of Royal Dutch/Shell Group, have both responded to the global-warming threat and set up internal systems that exceed goals put forth in Kyoto. Shell and BP have vowed...
...callow bowler in the opposing XI, what would it have been like to confront this Bradman? His entry onto the ground was an amble, which some interpreted as him basking in the applause. In fact, he was allowing his blue eyes to adjust to the sunlight. From narrow shoulders hung muscular arms; this was the result of nothing except overuse of a bat. More striking was his unmistakable half-smile, reflecting both supreme self-confidence and pleasure. "I couldn't wait to bat," he said. "The bigger the occasion, the tenser the atmosphere, the more I liked the game...
...views about the major issues that will confront his office--information technology, diversity, interdisciplinary work and faculty recruitment--are largely unknown on campus...
...environment" than these narrowly focused issues. And there's a whole lot more to Bush's frenzy of environment-friendly activity than is discernable at first glance. The glow of a few small successes cannot be allowed to obfuscate the larger problems which Bush has yet to confront, nor the poor decisions which have already been made...