Word: confronted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...article argues that Edelman's statements made through the Children's Defense Fund indicate that she is "railing against attempts to confront the culture of poverty whose existence she herself implicitly concedes...
...Holocaust is a malignity of such dimensions that one must resort to mental tricks to appreciate its scale and scope. Yet, one is compelled to confront its scale and scope -- and single-mindedness -- in order to understand its uniqueness...
...License plates make it easy to trace home addresses; Social Security numbers and public records can be useful in assessing a subject's financial status. The point of such snooping is to lay siege to people who perform or facilitate abortions: pray or picket in front of their houses, confront them in the supermarket, identify them as "murderers" to their neighbors and children. A lawyer instructed the Melbourne volunteers on how far they could go with such harassing activities while remaining within their First Amendment rights. The attorney took them to the Brevard County courthouse and showed them...
...fate of America's children to anything less than astute professionals is to invite mediocrity. The American educational system has problems far more pressing than the moral significance of the Rainbow Curriculum. Let's leave the management of out schools to people with the experience, training and wisdom to confront them...
...upcoming TV ads, nerdish lab hounds, supposedly employed by the brewers at Miller, confront button-down corporate types, promoting the "drinkability" of their latest product. With unmistakable shyness they unveil . . . Miller Clear, the new beer that's as clear as water. As the stunned execs peer through a lucid flagon, so amazed that the hair on one turns white, an announcer proclaims, "To make a truly great beer-drinking beer, we had to do just one little thing" -- an innovation by that point transparently obvious...