Word: confrontational
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Bravo for your reporting on autism�and treatment options [May 15]. I encounter many toddlers and young children with Autistic Spectrum Disorders. Explaining the diagnosis to parents causes them immediate confusion, panic and pain at the loss of the "normal child" they expected, as they confront a child who responds to the world in his own foreign code. Your article highlighted the Floortime approach. My colleagues and I are firm believers that for most children and families, it is the method that best enhances the bonding between child and parent, child and therapist, and eventually child and peers. The therapy...
Negotiating with a regime like Iran's, however, would have drawbacks. Skeptics dismiss the sincerity of the Iranian proffers, calling them ploys to distract attention from Tehran's defiance and dilute the international community's will to confront Iran. "We have nothing to say to them," says a U.S. official deeply involved in the Iran issue. "Every demand and every incentive that we would support has already been put on the table." The official adds that by agreeing to talk to Iran, the U.S. would "absolve the international community of the responsibility to tackle this problem." Opponents of engagement further...
...however, has probably been cast for all junk foods in schools. Talks between the Clinton team and the snackmakers that provide the other goodies stuffed into school vending machines are under way, helped in no small part by the fact that the companies confront the same kind of regulatory chaos that the sodamakers faced. Pepsi--a major snackmaker--is a player in this deal too, as are Kraft, General Mills, ConAgra, Unilever, Mars and others...
...Torture should be a thing of the past,” said William M. Skinner ’09, one of the demonstrators. “[Protests like these] don’t confront [passersby] or make them angry, but it does jolt them...
...spoiled rich kids, accustomed to experiencing life as one long party and unwilling to let reality ruin their fun until it’s too late. Richard himself is given ample warning of the various dangers facing his rule but decides to go off to Ireland rather than confront them, returning only to be deposed. This Richard was likely to brush off serious matters with a sneer and a wave of the hand, which painted the defection of the more serious members of his court (they wore suits and ties instead of t-shirts or fishnets), in the light...