Word: confronted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...which evolved their own nationhoods over centuries. The empire builders, for example, never were lashed by the obligation to improve the standard of living of those they ruled. Today the leaders of a new nation are soon in trouble if they do not do so-visibly and dramatically. They confront not one but several revolutions at once-political, economic, social, technological-and are thereby called on to make choices that Western statesmen never had to make. The evidence of how difficult those choices are, and of how unprepared the new nations are to make them, is everywhere at hand...
...full-page advertisement in Sunday's New York Times, the IUC asked that the debate on Vietnam, that has thus far been been confined to college campuses, be expanded to confront "millions of Americans" outside university communities...
...Friedan says most American women are "silly," but complains that their status as "a disadvantaged majority" is unjustified. One moment she denies any specific tyranny of women by men, but then agrees with the other panelist who wants "women to organize, confront their male brethern, and continue to run the country (as they do now) under a nominal male power structure...
...that the five councillors chose to oust Curry established a bad precedent and was indiscreet. The city managership ought not to be a job which is actively sought after by one candidate or another. If there are councillors who are dissatisfied with the present manager, they ought to confront him and ask for changes. If this strategy fails, then they ought to look for someone else...
...Harvard-Radcliffe students quickly learn that some welfare checks are spent on liquor and that the "battered child syndome" exists outside Soc Rel 150 tests. to confront the federal government and argue against the dam (Stuart Udall's "baby," they observe). The tribe has no notion of how to organize itsel