Word: confrontational
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...When I arrived at B.A. and asked people how we should compete with Ryanair, they said not to worry because we own Go. In other words, we don't need to get our own house in order. But we needed to change the way B.A. itself runs things to confront Ryanair and EasyJet, and no full-service airline has ever been able to run a no-frills carrier in the same family successfully...
Though queer studies shares some interests with women’s studies—such as issues of gender identity and sexuality—the two ought to be separate and distinct committees. While women’s studies deal with issues confronting the female gender, queer studies includes studies of both men and women who share a particular lifestyle and confront similar issues of identity. And since women’s studies is a committee with limited resources, any further burdens upon it would hurt both programs...
...inflating grades], and therefore they should too.” This vicious cycle gives students and faculty less accurate information, provides almost no distinction between real and inflated As and, most detrimentally, deprives students of the best opportunity to learn all they can at Harvard. The Faculty must confront its unavoidable responsibility to assure a more professional, direct and organized approach to issuing grades to undergraduates. While giving students meaningful feedback about their work, these grades must maintain the integrity of a Harvard...
Most Serbs who watch will be in for a shock. Whether they accept the tribunal or dismiss it, says Sonja Biserko, president of the Helsinki Committee for Human Rights in Belgrade, "We are going to be forced to confront things that haven't been discussed until now. The horror of the crimes will become self-evident." And the government of President Vojislav Kostunica may face dissent from within as the misdeeds of insiders - many of them still in office - are publicly aired for the first time and new witnesses are called upon to testify...
...thick German accent and austere manner made it easy for people to whisper about his fascistic tendencies. Lang always said that he wanted his films rather than his personal life to speak for him. His films clearly condemn authoritarian figures, and show what happens when individuals are forced to confront modern institutions of control, domination and surveillance. This is clearly not the cinematic vision of somebody who supported the Nazi dream machine...