Word: confronting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...concluding, Homer recounted some of the major questions raised by crust-stage like which will confront the new University Research Center devoted to the field...
...number of proposals have been advanced to remedy this situation. Some would require that all exams bear detailed comments; others suggest that each student have a right to confront his grader. One of the more unique suggestions is that of Sanford A. Lakoff, assistant professor of Government. The present student-faculty ratio, Lakoff says, makes it "utopian" to expect elaborate comments or an individual session with a grader. Many courses might improve matters by devoting a special meeting to a "post-mortem" on the exam, but half-courses would find this difficult...
...shelved the billion-dollar program of aid to underdeveloped countries that had been announced with such fanfare last fall as their great gesture to help share the U.S.'s foreign aid load in 1961. Adenauer's Christian Democrats pleaded that they face elections this fall, dare not confront the voters with such a costly program...
...slow the boom, but insisted that the fight laid "a firm base" for sound growth. "Some temporary acceleration of growth might have been achieved if expectations of price increases had been allowed to persist and to become fully rooted." But such growth would have been "unsustainable" and would now confront the economy with "the need for far-reaching and painful correction...
...This is the first in a series of editorials dealing with major policy problems that will confront the new Kennedy Administration...