Word: confrontative
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...package of hate mail, anti-Jewish and anti-black material. We knew it was from Larry Trapp, but we couldn't prove it. We were pretty frightened. It went on that way for a while, and then I talked with my wife Julie, and I said I had to confront this. The only thing I hoped to accomplish was to let him know that I wasn't afraid of him. I was pretty angry, but I never expressed any anger on the telephone...
...also symbolizes the dangers of overpromising. Economic nationalism is deeply embedded in the fabric of Japanese culture, and it may be naive to believe that the long-standing trade imbalance can be wiped off the books in a single presidential term. No Democrat -- or Bush either -- seems prepared to confront the ultimate what-if question: What if America's trade deficit with Japan is a permanent condition and cannot be eliminated through pressure to open up Japanese markets or short-term investments in domestic competitiveness? The Democrats -- aside from Brown, who rarely mentions Japan in his different- drummer campaign...
...Arledge heard their decision to hold off. Yet hours later, the network devoted that night's episode of Nightline to dishing the unchecked dirt from the Star, in the guise of debating the propriety of doing so. The rationale, as explained by anchor Ted Koppel: Clinton himself planned to confront the issue publicly, agreeing to do Nightline that evening before a travel snafu forced him to cancel his trip to Washington. "It was no longer simply a 'Supermarket tabloid has charged . . .' " said Koppel. "The Clinton campaign had already decided, and we knew that they had decided to address the issue...
Sobered by the news of Goodman's disappearance, Ganz continued on to Mississippi where he worked to send protest delegates to the national Democratic convention. There they would confront the racist Mississippi Democratic Caucus...
Assuming the facts in the January 13 Crimson article entitled "Med Student Put on Probation" are correct, the assailant, Maurice Sholas, was guilty of premeditated criminal assault. He returned to confront two students after having originally left the party on the advice of friends...