Word: confronted
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...plan is its bottom line: $60,000. Perhaps the reconstituted Student Assembly will be able to do more than stage rock concerts with that money. Perhaps it will save a little for its own purposes and distribute the rest to campus organizations that will use the funds to confront the administration and demand real change...
...Soviet imperialism are the fundamental reality that Arab-Israeli disputes must be related to. An exclusive preoccupation with the Arab-Israeli dispute would not remove overriding strategic dangers that those of us who share common values -Arab and Jew, and America and other Western nations-have got to confront...
...Influence of Rousseau upon Dostoevsky. Robin F. Miller, who divides her time between the RRC and a teaching position at Columbia University, just finished a critique of Dostoevsky's The Idiot. In her book, Miller examines the way the author manipulates his readers, forcing them to confront complicated moral matters. While working on the book, Miller became interested in Dostoevsky's use of confessions, a genre she argues, he adopted from Rousseau. "There are two passages in Rousseau which Dostoevsky returns to over and over in parodies and other ways. For instance, Rousseau used to wander the streets at night...
Deputy Prime Minister Manuel Gutiérrez Mellado, a liberal army officer sprang to his feet to confront the raiders, but was butted savagely in the stomach with a submachine gun and manhandled into his seat. Outgoing Prime Minister Adolfo Suárez angrily rose and declared that he still represented the people. "Sit down, pig!" shouted one of the attackers. As shots rang out, most of the legislators ducked, but Suárez remained defiantly upright on the government front bench...
Earlier in the day, Juan Carlos had met with the leaders of all the major parties. He said that the crown was proud to have served the cause of democracy, but warned that he could not always be counted on to "confront circumstances of considerable tension and gravity." In his own diplomatic way he was telling the politicians that if they wanted to keep their democratic processes alive, they would have to abandon their divisive sloganeering and learn to stand up to the military with a strong democratic government...