Word: confronting
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Specifically, however right the report is about administrative reform, its first responsibility should have been to redefine the goals of General Education and explain the means for attaining them. But it is here that the report does not confront its task with sufficient candor and commits two errors, one of omission, one of commission...
...OMISSION--Broadly, in discussing the aims of Gen Ed, the Doty report has to a large extent formalized the existing, confused structure. It has failed to define what a Gen Ed course should be and do, to confront a basic problem plaguing the present program: How does one differentiate between a Gen Ed course and an introductory departmental offering...
...shocking the charges against him, every American accused of a crime is entitled to a fair trial before twelve unbiased jurors. Yet whatever tactics the defense tries - change of venue, peremptory challenges or cautionary instructions to the jury - all may be futile in a day when mass me dia confront potential jurors with everything from the murder weapon to the victim's widow. Such "prejudicial reporting" or pretrial press publicity has caused appellate courts to overturn more and more convictions...
...explained that students at Brandies, who are constantly told of their academic excellence, find it difficult to understand that they are considered incapable of making decisions about the problems which confront them in their personal lives...
Scranton readily admitted that it was awfully late to stop Goldwater, and he accepted part of the blame: "I share responsibility with others of our leaders who until now have failed to act. Surely all of us now must confront what is a reality. The Republican Party is in danger-and some say our country...