Word: confronter
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...simplest terms, the issue was one which many other industries must confront in seeking automation. What should become of the men displaced by machines? Because of the change from steam to diesel engines, management contends that firemen are no longer needed. By employing these and other unnecessary men the railroads lose $600 million annually. Beset with competition from barges, trucks, and pipelines, management believes that the railroads cannot sustain these costs and survive. The unions, in opposing plans to eliminate the alleged waste of manpower, voice their concern for the welfare of their members...
Boston needs a journal which will not only confront its problems honestly, but also enlist the contributions of prominent citizens who are often blithely unaware of the community in which they live. Through Forum the editors thus hope to "integrate" the citizens of Boston by making them conscious of common issues, and the need for common solutions...
...freshman team will confront the Tigers with the same lineup it has used in its two previous victories. Coach Henry Lamar expects a tough contest from the Tigers...
...audience. In Legend of Judith, an extension of her recent cycle of mystic studies of heroines seeking reconciliation with their pasts, Graham, now 70, dances Judith, aging and melancholy; with a dream's logic, Judith recalls her patriotic seduction and murder of Holofernes, while real and imagined forms confront her to weave with their dance the tangle of her quiet doom. In Circe, Graham turns Ulysses' odyssey into an inner event, a flight of the imagination in which enchantment is only a prelude to bestiality, and anguish is the only alternative to evil...
...John Perdew should evoke from us more than a passing interest, and perhaps a few dollars. The social revolution erupting in this nation forces each man to make a decision about his own life. John Perdew's choice, the quality of his commitment, is something each man must confront...