Word: confronted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...know it, and many of us say it, but few of us have had the courage to combat the massive disinformation campaign that began to confront us when we were innocent little froshlings entering the Yard for the first time. Poster gum, we were told, magically allows us to decorate our rooms without destroying the (ahem) priceless architectural treasures we inhabit. (I apologize to Mather House residents for excluding them from the discourse. Try to think back to your first year, and maybe something will ring a bell. If you lived in Canaday, I can't help...
Washington has not insisted that German and Japanese soldiers help confront Saddam. But when Germans began debating just what common-defense obligations they owed Turkey, a senior Bush Administration official says, it amounted to "shaving at the edges of their NATO commitment." London was also disgruntled. Alan Clark, Britain's junior Defense Minister, noted that "people plugging the Euro-unity notion" -- he meant Germans -- have envisaged a common defense policy. But "at the first major test," said Clark, "they ran for the cellars...
...problems confront the Medical School in its negotiations for an increase in the indirect cost rate...
...bear to watch a TV clip of a 22-year- old sergeant, a former Oklahoma high school running back, being ripped apart by an Iraqi mine? Turning away would be cowardly, and a government that sanitized such gore to soothe domestic sensibilities would be contemptible. For if I cannot confront the true face of this war, if I cannot endure the moral burden of the bleeding and dying, then -- so unlike with Vietnam -- I will have no one to blame but myself...
...quoted Saddam as saying the battle would be decided by Iraq's superior will power and patience. "It is only a matter of time before the enemy becomes convinced it has done all it can and that the Iraqis are determined to confront it and triumph over it," he was quoted as saying...