Word: confronting
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...reasoning. Its use of the establishment clause seems to proscribe any link at all between government and religion, yet such links are embedded in the realities of U.S. society. To infer that government now has a duty to cut them may well force the court to later confront unnecessarily painful questions, including the constitutionality of tax exemption for churches. Such future troubles could have been avoided, critics say, had the court arrived at the same school decisions by a somewhat different route-the First Amendment's "free exercise" clause, thus allowing the court to stress freedom of worship...
Tazieff lectures on his esoteric specialty at the University of Brussels, but drops his regular work whenever he gets a chance to confront an active volcano. Protected by fiber-glass armor that can deflect a molten bomb weighing 100 Ibs., he carefully stalks into the craters, sometimes close to the roaring throats, and plants seismographs to measure the heartbeat of lava rising deep under the mountain. He samples gases with little glass tubes poked into hot ash, studies the unstable build-up of fresh cinders. So far, Tazieff has escaped without serious injury...
Rather, the philosophy of "Negritude" holds that Negro peoples should confront this issue openly and not seek refuge in a lot of useless historical myth-making, which neither helps us overcome a cultural inferiority complex nor facilitates scientific understanding of why Negro African cultures only attained the stage of technological evolution that they...
Given the huge imbalance in applications and the distributions required in each House, same Masters have almost no choice of students; others give up their chance to select students rather than confront a large table in University Hall, where hundreds of freshman applications are swapped, shifted, sorted, and stacked...
Hodgins' book is not only a chronicle of the embarrassments and irritations that confront the patient in any major illness; it is also a useful handbook for sympathetic friends. To a man of Hodgins' temperament too much consideration can be dangerous. He despises get-well cards, with or without bluebirds, and the standard bunch of flowers: "I am sorry to have to cross pistils with the nation's florists, but unless flowers are quite inexpensive and casually arranged, they are an insult. The more beautifully arranged, the deeper the insult...