Word: confronted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Faculty refused to recognized the body's legitimacy because it did not have a hand in the formulation of a new government. Now, a student council with support from 43 percent of undergraduates is deemed legitimate. Assuming that most of the meaningful issues the nascent council will confront will bring it into conflict with administrators or the Faculty, the unctious desire to appease both these groups shown by the constitution's framers at every step casts doubt on the new council's potential for furthering student interests...
...last dispassionate bastion of social standards. But her frigid facade soon crumbles when she meets a gentle young man half her age, and their affair entangles Montgomery, from its upper echelons to the railroad station's streetwalkers. Because young Hercules is Black, questions of bigotry, race and, eventually, love confront these characters...
Representatives of the parties that hurled these epithets at one another throughout the campaign could sit down together as early as April 12 as members of the new constituent assembly to confront the country's deep economic and social problems. That will demand close cooperation and a new start, but El Salvador's history shows that its politicians are slow to forgive or forget...
...Harvard-area nuclear disarmament movement, now spearheaded on campus by a broad coalition called Students for Social Responsibility, has held teach-ins and protests attended by thousands this school year. These activists are part of a growing national force which may eventually force the White House to confront Moscow with an offer the Soviets won't be able to refuse We'll cut back now if you cut back...
...they can be, and have been in the past, kept in a state of overall equilibrium. But it is an equilibrium with an underlying paradox: by their very nature, nuclear weapons are military instruments too powerful and destructive to "solve," in any meaningful and positive sense, political problems that confront the U.S. and the Soviet Union. Yet they are also too pow erful...