Word: confrontational
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...Bush was euphoric on election night, but now he might be secretly wishing Democrat Bill McBride had beat him. While McBride gets to return to a life of wealthy retirement in Tampa, Florida's governor has to confront the biggest challenge of his political career: how to implement an expensive amendment to the state constitution that requires smaller public school class sizes. To add insult to injury, he campaigned against the idea, but now has to enforce it. Is that laughter coming from Tampa...
...said families now have to confront an array of issues foreign to families 40 years ago—economic pressure, new social norms and changes in education...
...Beginning in the late 1980s, however, the world began to change. International competition has intensified dramatically, trade barriers elsewhere have fallen, China snapped out of its slumber, and Southeast Asia and South Korea have proven that they can match Japan as high-tech manufacturers and exporters. But rather than confront a new competitive landscape head on, Japan still acts as if it is a developing country that needs to be protected...
...things that often happens in a democracy and at a university is we keep the peace by not mentioning bluntly when we disagree,” said Loker Professor of English Robert J. Kiely, explaining that the professors wanted to confront disagreement head-on through a “range of difficult, controversial, perhaps shocking texts?...
...Drug Enforcement Administration is launching an urgent new initiative to confront the exploding Afghan heroin trade, which officials fear will generate millions of dollars for al-Qaeda-linked groups. Code-named Operation Containment, the DEA effort will open offices in Kabul and the Uzbek capital of Tashkent to monitor the bustling northern smuggling route to Russia. The agency's offices in Turkey are being expanded to intensify monitoring of heroin traffic to Western Europe. Stateside, FBI officials have established new narco-terrorism squads in New York City and other field offices, and are expanding domestic investigations into drug rings with...