Word: confronted
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...status, cannot legitimately be excluded from the insurance program. But to base decisions on narrow legality is a dangerous course. Chemical warfare research is also legal, but there are moral implications involved which would, hopefully, lead the University to resist participation in such projects. Harvard has a responsibility to confront the moral issues...
Historically, Israel has refused to confront the Palestinian problem, and the majority of the Israeli people still reject the idea of establishing an adjacent Palestinian state. But, there has been some change in Israeli public opinion, and there is potential for movement even further. The currently widespread concern over the Palestinian problem contrasts sharply with the situation of only a couple years ago. At that time, Gold a Meir denied the very existence of a Palestinian people. The morale of the Israelis has risen markedly since the Entebbe operation, and the country feels militarily strong. Judging from the past...
Although the tradition of decentralization has "many virtues which should be clearly recognized," this practice "may not suffice to cope with the new issues that confront us," Bok said...
Katz, as well as colleagues Charles M. Haar, Brandeis Professor of Law, and Alan M. Dershowitz, professor of Law, have talked to members of the transition office--formally organized after Carter received the presidential nomination to identify the most pressing issues that would confront the new administration...
Seaver can be forgiven these slight excesses, however, since his purpose is to impart an enthusiasm of discovery like his own to the unfamiliar reader, not to confront him with the airy abstractions like "The Cartesian Centaur," "The Metaphysics of Choiceless Awareness," and of course, "Waiting for Beckett," so favored by critics. Seaver shunts critics aside: "The point to remember is that, with or without exegesis, Beckett is great fun." As usual, Beckett says it better: "If people have headaches among the overtones, let them. And provide their own aspirin...