Word: confronted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Congress comes back to confront energy and inflation...
Even before the combat troops in Cuba were confirmed, the country was moving to confront itself about the SALT treaty, its military strength and its world leadership role. The Cuban episode will force a strategic review that will appraise Soviet intentions from the Persian Gulf to Panama, and American policy will be hardened in the new budget that takes shape before Christmas...
...young associates (Martin Short, Alley Mills, John Getz) must choose between ambition and conscience. As one of them jokes, should he "make a nun crack under crossexamination" to serve a big client? The Associates is not afraid to address the ethical issues, light and serious, that confront the legal profession. This show is only afraid of being unfunny or cheap - and, of that, it apparently need have no fear...
...that the police are happy with Harvard. The age-old gripes persist, but they are mostly issues that confront all the 1000 or so unionized Harvard employees, and they are hardly ever solved at the bargaining table. The police union has yet to meet to discuss the demands they will present Harvard when their contract expires December 31, but job security will undoubtedly be one of their major bargaining points. In the last nine years the number of uniformed policemen has declined from 60 to 41 as the force has taken on a more administrative and computer-oriented style...
...view, when a company, or the Harvard Management Company for that matter, is oblivious to potentially explosive social or moral issues, it will run into financial difficulties. The Management Company, therefore, keeps tabs on the activities of the ACSR to foresee any social and financial problems that may confront an investment...