Word: confronter
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Administration leaders are worried almost as much about the mood of business as businessmen are worried about them. Says Treasury Secretary W. Michael Blumenthal: "We confront a troubling paradox: on the one hand, good economic recovery in 1977 and reasonably good prospects for 1978; and on the other, the lowest level of business confidence in a long time...
...confront the typewriter fearlessly...
Vellucci said Cambridge and Harvard now confront one another over numerous issues, such as the controversy over Harvard-sponsored DNA research and the leaky underpass below the Science Center...
Thus the Supreme Court had to confront once again the legacy of its 1954 ruling that American society must proceed "with all deliberate speed" toward racial desegregation. The courts spent years enforcing the promise of that ruling against various challenges and obstructions, but it became clear that repeated judicial pronouncements against segregation would never lead to an integrated society. Help arrived from the Executive Branch in the 1960s. Presidents Kennedy and Johnson issued executive orders requiring "affirmative action" by Government contractors to provide more jobs for minorities. Congress soon joined in, more regulations, followed, and affirmative action expanded to include...
...shocker. Or to use Hirsch's gobbledygook, we confront the "overwhelming implications of this status factor on social and economic policy...