Word: confronted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard lacrosse team received an official invitation to the NCAA championships yesterday. The Crimson, seeded seventh in the nation, will travel to Baltimore, Md., Wednesday to confront number-two rated Johns Hopkins in the tourney's first round...
...misled the allies. Said a top Common Market official: "Why does the U.S. count on the Europeans so much when what the Europeans do turns out to be irrelevant?" The allies went to "great trouble" to form a common position in support of Carter, said this official, only to confront what he called "another flipflop" in U.S. policy. Among America's allies the most damaging immediate fallout from the aborted mission was the reinforcement of an already strong conviction: Carter is not up to leading the U.S. and the alliance. A senior Common Market official was despairing...
Seven Sioux reservation councils recently passed resolutions condemning the book. Pickets follow the author around the country with signs saying HILL HAS A TONTO COMPLEX and HILL SPEAK WITH FORKED TONGUE. When Sioux protesters showed up to confront Hill at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln last week, the author angrily canceled her appearance. Said Hill: "We've been shafted by people who don't know what they're talking about...
John Anderson's campaign as an independent is another issue which the Citizen's Party must confront if it is to succeed, for Anderson and Commoner appeal to many of the same kinds of voters. Commoner recognizes the odds; Anderson has an unquestionably wealthier and more organized campaign...
...still falling behind. It is the story of the frustrations faced by Blacks at Yale and of the discouragement of Black students who see themselves forgetting their brothers and sisters on the streets. It is the story of the culture shock caused when upper- and middle-class Blacks confront the differences between themselves and working-class Blacks. It is in fact a cogent study of the many complex issues suggested by the title Black at Yale...