Word: confrontations
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...sending off Madeleine Albright to challenge Saddam Hussein to a wrestling match, but we are asking her to help us decide at what times we should wrestle. How tough to be in Bosnia? How to lessen the never-ending tensions of the Middle East? How to confront the emergence of China? How often should the U.S. come to the rescue of struggling young democracies? We are handing over a significant portion of power to a woman--asking her to provide insight and judgment on matters which frequently mean life for some and death for others...
...with the unofficial reigning queen of the court, the widow de Blayac (Fanny Ardant). The widow de Blayac is almost a spiritual twin of Dangerous Liaisons' calculating Marquise de Merteuil. Both of them rule with Machiavellian minds and Voltairian wits. She is the master player that Gregoire has to confront from whom he learns to play the game of seduction as well as the game...
...problem of closed markets abroad. "There is a potential political as well as trade problem down the line with countries like China," Baumohl reports. "The numbers indicate that the U.S. has a bigger trade imbalance with China than Japan. The U.S. will have to confront China soon on the tricky issue of opening markets to our goods...
Cleeman believes that with these bodies the council will have the strength that it needs to confront university administrators on issues such as ethnic studies and Core reform...
...unwaveringly implemented by obedient local authorities. Now, paradoxically, the same community controls--and the mind-sets they evoke--may offer the possibility of peaceful reintegration. Last Wednesday, Odetta Mukandari returned to her village and found her house occupied by Mbangukira Kabagare, a 70-year-old Tutsi. Mukandari didn't confront Kabagare; she didn't even knock on the door. Instead she went to live with relatives. Later, when she met him in the street, she simply smiled politely. As for Kabagare, he explained that the authorities had originally told him he could stay in the house, and that if they...