Word: confrontative
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...program (most likely called 20/20) and expanding it to four or even five nights next season. The revised show may also include at least a few minutes of the day's news at the top of the hour. "It's one of the most important decisions ABC has confronted in recent years," says News president David Westin, "or will confront for some time to come...
...China. The president's summer travels will also take him to the People's Republic. In the first visit of an American president since Tiananmen, the world will be watching and wondering if Clinton will confront the Chinese on issues of human rights on their own turf. If he doesn't you can be sure that those protesters that greeted President Jiang here at Harvard and around the country last fall will be waiting for him when he comes home...
Although Springfest still has a long way to go, the council deserves our praise for at least beginning to confront its flaws...
...diffidence frustrates representative democracy by telling citizens their genuine opinions do not matter, which is just another way of saying they are incapable of self-government. To prove otherwise, we need to reclaim for politics such properly political matters as sexual harassment law. We need to compel Congress to confront such matters if we are to continue to demonstrate our capacity for self-government through representative democracy. In short, we need to re-politicize our politics...
There are essentially three basic models from which Jerry derives his daily spectacle. One, angry black Americans confront the Ku Klux Klan. Two, partners confess that they are less than faithful. And finally, my personal favorite, husbands attempt to convince their stripper wives to hang up their G-strings. Allow me to elaborate on the full splendor of these seemingly simple templates that form the groundwork of Jerry's genius...