Word: confronting
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...Medical Education Today," a report by the deans of leading American medical schools, recognized the social and economic problems which confront medicine. Unfortunately, academic medicine has not been able to lead a reconstruction of the profession because of the opposition to change of the AMA. By its failure to re-order its own affairs, medicine now invites government intervention...
...Birmingham demonstrations confront the Administration with a choice: either it makes absolutely clear its championship of the Negroes' cause, or it leaves them to their own efforts. It may be too late for the President to regain for the government a position of leadership in the fight for civil rights; but he must recognize that, as matters stand, the government has been left far behind, and is barely considered a participant in the fight. The Negroes are evidently willing to take physical risks of great seriousness rather than move towards equality at the President's cautious pace. The events...
...electric power output and other measures of economic heft. With greater political unity-now temporarily impeded by France's Charles de Gaulle-the Common Market countries could be a military power comparable to Russia, or even superior. In concert, the Common Market, the U.S. and the British Commonwealth confront Russia with overwhelming economic might...
...federalist panelist, Carter Higgins, president of the Worcester Pressed Steel Co. and the New England World Federalists, came to the meeting, as he said expecting to confront a John Bircher. He spent much of the discussion attacking Birchite anti-disarmament and anti-United Nations slogans. He said, "You can get together with the Russians if you have...
...campaign, Pearson promised to confront both issues. With his imminent accession as Canada's 14th Prime Minister, he had a chance to do so. After a lifetime in education and diplomacy, he had turned to the new trade of politics. Now he had the chance to prove that politics is the art of the possible...