Word: confrontative
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Review will also create a task forceto "assess and evaluate the status and treatmentof women within the Law Review," Schulmansaid. She said the committee would "confront what[the parody's] contents reflect about the LawReview as an institution and ourselvespersonally...
Less than two days after that announcement, the Toronto headquarters of Olympia & York lobbed another bombshell by reporting a shake-up of the firm's management. To help confront its bankers, O&Y named a new president to replace Paul Reichmann: Thomas Johnson, 51, the former president of Manufacturers Hanover Trust. As financial advisers, the Reichmanns signed up some well- respected Wall Street names: investment banker James Wolfensohn and Robert S. ("Steve") Miller, who helped engineer the Chrysler bailout 12 years ago. Still, O&Y spokesman Peter Rosenthal stressed that "Paul and Albert remain the primary stockholders...
...listen to this music--you confront it. The synthetic noise-scape is a mine field which explodes, throwing out sharp pieces of musical shrapnel accompanied by lyrics that evoke a vision of industrial Hell. "Deserted digging through/Splinters from cracking boards/Caught upon fingers dancing in darkness/Pain shoots smack down any hole...
...transcend sexual politics and anger against men to express a new vision of family and community. We must go from wallowing in the victim's state to mobilizing the new power of women and men for a larger political agenda on the priorities of life. We need to confront the polarization. We're at a dangerous time." Such conciliatory rhetoric is not backsliding. It too is a call to arms...
...Concerned that a weakened Iraq might leave a vacuum for Iranian power to fill and prompt Turkish Kurds to join their Iraqi compatriots in a breakaway country, Washington stood back while Saddam turned his guns against Iraqi Kurds and Shi'ites. Comments an Administration official: "When Bush and Baker confront the breakup of a nation-state, whether it's Iraq, Yugoslavia or the Soviet Union, they instinctively reach for an older, more traditional kind of world...