Word: confronted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...French students succeed in abrogating the proposed reform, they have provided important inspiration to American students faced with analogous situations. The American educational system is neither as centralized nor as public as is the French system, so that educational issues are less clearly political ones. But American universities confront the same kind of problems on job-directed programs, to cut costs and staff, and to turn to corporate organizational practices. This is true whether the university is public or private, although public universities like the City University of New York are more likely to cut back specifically on non-vocational...
Ford may not have wished to tip off Panama to the eventual U.S. negotiating position, and he clearly did not want to confront the issue in an election year. If Ford lacked some political candor, his attitude nevertheless was much more sensible than Reagan's jingoistic refusal even to consider that outright, unyielding ownership of the canal may no longer serve any vital U.S. interest. Indeed, insistence upon that ownership may produce only needless hostility between the U.S. and its remaining friends in Latin America and the Third World...
...student coalition and the Law School Council prepared to confront the visiting committees with charges of administrative stalling in the Bowman case and others like it, Sacks finally named the promised outside investigator--Robert A. Gorman '58, a University of Pennsylvania law professor...
...their hunger, to themselves and to others, is extreme. They deny that they have any emotional or physical problems. While on ritualized and limited diets they are apt to suffer from digestive problems, but they deny they are ill and avoid seeing doctors who might force them to confront their self-starvation...
...became the La Porte pariah when she told the American Legion there would be no military rites at the funeral. Although her husband shared her bitterness, he was too busy to share in all of her protest activities. She traveled to Washington to participate in antiwar demonstrations and confront Senators and Congressmen. She corresponded with other parents whose sons had been killed in Viet Nam. The Mullens also used Michael's Government insurance money to publish a full-page ad in the Des Moines Register. It consisted of 714 crosses representing Iowa's Viet Nam War dead...