Word: confrontative
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...gunman's first victims was an elderly man who was struck by the truck and shot in the head as he attempted to get up. The gunman then fired on a grandmother, and killed 71-year-old Al Gratia, who ignored his daughter's pleas and rose to confront the killer. As screams pierced the air, the gunman moved toward the crowded serving line and continued firing. Pausing only long enough to pack fresh clips into his two semiautomatic pistols -- a Glock 17 and a Ruger P-89 -- he worked his way methodically around the rectangular, beige-colored hall. Cool...
...different ways, the Totenberg and Williams situations illustrate the ethical and professional dangers that confront journalists when they allow themselves to become part of the story they are covering. Totenberg is no stranger to scoops or controversy. Until the Thomas hearings, she was probably best known for her 1987 disclosure that Supreme Court nominee Douglas Ginsburg smoked marijuana while a law professor at Harvard. The subsequent furor compelled Ginsburg to withdraw his candidacy. A Boston University dropout, Totenberg graduated from the women's page of the Boston Record-American to the now defunct National Observer. She was fired from...
...recognize my own shortcomings, the faults in the conduct of my private life," said Kennedy. "I am the one who must confront them...
...elderly are all-too-witting pawns in this game of beggar--thy-young-neighbor doctoring. The old get older, consume more and more health care resources, and get older and older and seemingly never die. Politicans don't have the guts to confront the AARP's millions of votes, so the elderly continue to monopolize dollars through high-tech efforts to push the envelope of life expectancy. Medicare (read: your income taxes) pays a lot, co-insurance is cheap, so the old, like the insured, don't care...
Being taken seriously was only one of the obstacles Hill had to confront in making her case against Thomas. She may have found it equally difficult to go against two other strains of racial solidarity. One is the widespread fear among blacks of "washing dirty laundry in public," for fear of embarrassing the race. The other is the strong possibility that her charges would end up derailing the confirmation of the only black George Bush would appoint to the Supreme Court...