Word: confronted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...appealed to audiences and playwrights for centuries; Goethe's Faust is only the most familiar of many works by different authors using the same source. Its appeal lies in the common nature of humans in successive generations who, unwilling or unable to learn from their parents' mistakes, continue to confront the question that Marlowe answers in Doctor Faustus: Do I have the courage to follow through my desires and ambitions? And what would be the consequences...
...student, however, the extent of private industry rip-off is liable to be less serious than for those making their way in the world, those who must confront daily landlord-tenant situations, bill payments, insurance claims, and other harsh realities which entail numerous rip-off possibilities. The Phillips Brooks House small claims committee, operating out of Roxbury's municipal courthouse small claims advisory service, provides a campus link to the world of everyday consumer problems, and a chance for students to help combat them. Emily Skoler '82, last year's PBH small claims president, describes small claims as "a people...
...member board of directors, Griffiths' accomplishments eventually counted for little when weighed against his shortcomings as a manager of people. Instead of grooming his successor, a task that any corporate head must unavoidably confront as retirement approaches, Griffiths permitted the matter to languish unresolved. The result was a power vacuum that was soon filled by cabals of jockeying, maneuvering subordinates. Lamented one source close to the firm last week: "If you put two people together at this company, you will have three factions...
...pretext for the guerrillas' backers in Nicaragua and elsewhere to step up their own covert, and possibly even overt support. Thus, even as the guerrilla offensive appeared to have been halted for the foreseeable future, officials in the new Reagan Administration were worried that El Salvador might soon confront them with one of their first serious foreign policy dilemmas. -By Sara Medina...
Mahler's death images in the finales bring to mind something Seneca once said--art collectors, sportsment and those preoccupied with music confront an untimely death. (Mahler's daughter died, incidentally, three years after he composed the "Tragic," and he got his three years later...