Word: confronted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...appearances the Ayalas are not an exploitative family. To them the ethical questions that swirl around them are airy abstractions, not the terrifying reality they daily confront. A frightened Anissa has lately taken to dragging her mattress into her parents' bedroom each night. For her, there is no debate about how her family views soon-to-arrive Marissa. "She's my baby sister," Anissa declares. "And we're going to love her for who she is, not for what she can give me." Who is to say which sister is the luckier...
...would have preferred for us to confront the issue," said Noam Bramson '90, the council's former vice-chair. "The council sort of averted an internal crisis. It might have been a little nasty if the council had met it head...
Although local communists say they don't forsee such an uprising at any time in the near future, they add that it is important to prepare now for the inevitable showdown. The poor and oppressed of America will eventually confront the ruling class, they believe, and they intend to be ready to lead the battle...
...safe and loving care"; where the environment is clean, equal opportunity abounds, the disabled are part of the mainstream, the homeless "get the help they need," everyone "has a roof over his head," every child "makes the grade," the streets and schools are "drug-free," we all "confront and condemn racism and bigotry," and "no American is forgotten...
Larry Kramer believes it is necessary to confront the government, the church and industry in order to fight the deadly plague...