Word: confronted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...unlike New York and most other urban centers, New Haven had a group of public-health workers who, when faced with the AIDS epidemic, pulled together to confront a politically dicey issue. "It was a very methodical process," says Elaine O'Keefe, director of the AIDS division for New Haven's health department. The New Haven workers spoke out about the value of needle exchange at civic meetings, classrooms and churches. Then, after building support from the ground up, they forced the issue into local elections. A special act of the state legislature was required to lift...
...impact on the residents of South Central Los Angeles, where the film was set and shot. Says Disney's movie boss Jeffrey Katzenberg: "This is a time of trouble and concern, yet I am also optimistic. Hollywood can make movies that can speak to the issues we must now confront. We can also offer two hours of fun and escape from those very pressures that must now take priority in our lives...
...leaders of the student group, Dunster Students for Free Expression, said they consider the dismissal a violation of free expression rights and they requested today's meeting to confront Liem with their objections face-to-face...
...economic problems confronted by the Peruvian poor are probably the harshest that any Latin American population has ever confronted. This was clearly expressed by the the United State Secretary of State at the Organization of American States meeting on Monday April 13: "No nation and no people face a more daunting, dangerous or terrible set of crises than those inherited by the new democratic government of Peru less than two years ago. No nation and no people need and deserve international solidarity and support more than the Peruvian nation and Peruvian people. They confront the deepest economic crisis of their...
...held prisoner only a day's ride from Austin?" cried Perot, who then explained that Hanoi was only 24 hours away by air, and we should saddle up, ride out and get 'em. He further urged the State of Texas to deploy a delegation of local leaders to confront the Pathet Lao and the Viet Cong and to demand the release of Texas POWS. Our then Governor, known to all as POP Smith, for Poor Ol' Preston, was intellectually challenged by the task of getting from the Mansion to the Capitol every day. You could almost hear the entire legislature...