Word: confronted
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Oregon and Washington decided to confront the privacy issue head-on. Cars registered to drivers who have previously had their licenses suspended or revoked must carry a special designation: either a colored license plate or sticker. This type of marking allows police to pull a driver over at any time to check the status of the license. New York has turned to harsher punishment: a rash of accidents inspired the state legislature to pass a law with escalating penalties for repeat offenders, including fines, criminal charges and as much as 30 days of jail time. A second bill, introduced recently...
...current dearth of Black academics at Harvard is bound up with a legacy of American racism. The sins of fathers are, indeed, visited upon children. Yet we would do better merely to confront that ugly truth than to delude ourselves into thinking that the total erasure of past wrongs can come about with a new administrative agenda...
...beyond the thin veil of social science, there looms an ominous moral predicament. Harvard students are no longer leaders, but followers. At the time we graduate, we do not have the will to confront a tired and hardened world with our youthful vigor. We are non-confrontationalists, consensus builders. We want nothing more than to please the men and women who currently wield the real-world's power, whether they go by the name boss or parent. In short, there is a general spirit of conformist malaise about Cambridge these days...
Hiss, then president of the Carnegie Endowment, denied ever having met anyone named Whittaker Chambers. Nixon had both men summoned before the committee to confront each other. Hiss finally admitted knowing Chambers slightly under a different name. Chambers insisted that they had been "close friends . . . caught in a tragedy of history." But nothing could be proved until Chambers produced the "pumpkin papers," microfilms of State Department documents that he said Hiss had given him for transmission to Moscow. Hiss was convicted of perjury in January 1950, served 44 months in prison and has spent the rest of his long life...
Robert Tonis, Chief of University Police,circulated through the crowd of studentsapologizing for the police action and urgingstudents not to try to confront the police...