Word: confronting
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...landmark decision after an other, the Supreme Court has been extending the constitutional rights of state criminal defendants. Such decisions frequently confront lower courts with two puzzling questions: Do they apply to all crimes? Do they apply retroactively to already convicted criminals...
Martin Luther King's voter registration drive in Selma has dramatized once more the massive barriers which confront Southern Negroes who attempt to register and vote. At present, approximately 40 per cent of the Negroes in the South are able to vote, although in some states the figure is much lower. In Mississippi, only seven per cent of the Negro population is registered...
...letter of Spruille Braden Jr. [Dec. 25] gives an impression about the International Executive Service Corps that should be corrected. It is the purpose of IESC to assist those businesses in developing countries that are unable to employ qualified advisers. IESC will not, therefore, confront management consultants with "cut-rate competition." Rather, it seeks in a modest way to raise the level of performance of individual businesses and so create conditions more favorable to all types of business activity...
Through the hordes of January sales shoppers in Macy's Manhattan store last week moved one of the toughest customers ever to confront a salesperson. As the board chairman of R. H. Macy & Co., Jack Isidor Straus is not only the biggest man in the world's biggest store but the chief executive of a 49-store chain that serves 110 million people a year. Yet Jack Straus, at 64, enjoys none of his duties so much as that of playing the indignant consumer. A man with the saucer eyes and eager fingers of a shopper ready...
...peculiar that a Special Committee to Review General Education should be charged with this failure. And it is ironic that by its failure to confront such a central question, a committee which so strongly endorses the concept of General Education has done Gen Ed a disservice...