Word: confronted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...approriate is it for Foner to apply Geertz's formualtion to the Northern United States in the years just preceeding the Civil War? And furthermore, is he even using Geertz's conception of ideology in the way Geertz intended? Such questions, ones that Foner himself no doubt had to confront, are ones which history concentrators cannot broach...
Vrdolyak didn't want the votes of Blacks. Daley never had to confront his prejudice because in his time the Black vote was still disenfranchised. But while Daley never dealt with the Black vote; Vrdolyak did--and this latter day boss did not adapt to let Blacks into the machine on an equal level...
...program to deploy SDI. As Roald Sagdeyev, director of Moscow's Space Research Institute, told TIME, "We need some kind of insurance policy on SDI; otherwise, what is advertised innocently as a testing program could lead to rapid deployment of a full-scale system. Unrestrained SDI testing would confront our military planners with the requirement of more offensive systems, not less. It's that simple...
Despite that attack, Western diplomats in the region believe Iran's militant rhetoric masks a policy of caution, at least toward the U.S. For all its bluster, Iran has shown no inclination to confront U.S. forces directly. So far, that taunt-and-run strategy has paid off nicely. The U.S. presence has stopped Iraqi air attacks on Tehran's oil tankers, allowing Iran to increase its shipments out of the gulf and thereby accumulate much-needed cash. "The Iranians would like things to stay the way they are for as long as possible," says a Western diplomat. The mines...
...difficulties of bringing information to this notoriously recalcitrant community. "Their lives are relatively disorganized," observes Surgeon General C. Everett Koop, "and they are not the best recipients of any educational programs." While the nation's homosexual communities, particularly in New York and San Francisco, have effectively mobilized to confront AIDS by lobbying for federal funds, creating group homes for AIDS sufferers and recruiting volunteers to staff hot lines, there is almost no support for AIDS sufferers who are addicts. A 34-year-old black homosexual in Manhattan says he was able to "plug into" gay support groups "for emotional...