Word: confronted
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Once again the contrast to von Weizsacker could hardly be more striking. While von Weizsacker spoke of the need to confront the past at the 40th anniversary of V-E Day in 1985, Kohl celebrated German-American friendship with Ronald Reagan at Bitburg over the graves of SS soldiers. In light of Kohl's view of history, this incident and others--such as his comparison of Gorbachev to Hitler's propaganda minister--cannot be excused as isolated judgment errors...
Mass events are crude instruments, useful for delivering slogans and chants but not well suited to deciding subtle issues that confront environmental converts who are trying to translate their concerns into practice. Whether people should buy biodegradable or recyclable plastics or switch from disposable to cloth diapers will not be settled on April...
...starters, Clark made the politically savvy move of bringing three professors--one who was Black and another who was a woman--to confront the protesters...
...some, this message compels political or social activism. This is the same activism which will not sit still after a successful sea crossing, but must return and help the rest across. For others, this moral message impels a scrupulous attention to the hundreds of choices that confront us each day: whether to spend our moments idly or in service to others and to higher goals, whether to see others simply as part of the background or instead as people who crossed the sea to our left and to our right...
...does not want to lose its standing as the leading opposition to the Party of Democratic Socialism, the newly retooled communist organization, which took a surprising 16% of last week's vote. Others suggest that the Social Democrats' reluctance is inspired by Oskar Lafontaine, the SPD candidate who will confront Kohl in West Germany's national elections this December. Lafontaine may fear that by joining a grand coalition, his sister party in the East would be seen as a handmaiden of CDU policies...