Word: confrontational
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...hope is that...students will feel comfortable discussing issues that they confront," said Dingman, who served on the University Student Health Coordinating Board involved in organizing this outreach. "These workshops offer a wonderful chance for us to listen...
Despite the plethora of student service groups on campus--well over a hundred, at last count--only one organization seeks to directly confront the problem of skyrocketing rents and mass evictions...
...cherrywood executive corridor. Despite the many drawbacks, no one is predicting the concept's imminent demise. The cost of real estate is just too high, and open plans are cheaper space at higher density. The challenge that open space--in fact, any space--must confront is that "work is changing more rapidly than the environment," says Judith Heerwagen, an environmental psychologist in Seattle, "and we have to catch up and understand it better...
...Survival of the fittest. Scarce resources. These aren't just phrases from evolutionary biology, they are descriptions of the situation which would confront student organizations if the council focused the grants budget toward a few select groups. What doesn't kill the rest will only make them stronger. After the mass extinction, the survivors would roam the campus like giants, growing stronger and winning ever more resources. Like the two-party system, these large groups would reflect and absorb their disparate elements, forging a stronger, broader student community...
...away. The protesters moved on to the tower home of Radio Television Serbia. It was not only the regime's crucial mouthpiece--without it Milosevic could not counter the clamor in the streets--but also its most despised tool. A special antiterrorist unit had been set in place to confront any trouble. These troops resisted longer, firing tear gas and a few stray bullets. But when the protesters drew up their excavator and set the entry on fire, overwhelmed troops scooted out the back. The broadcast--the only one seen regularly throughout the country--of an orchestral concert blacked...