Word: confronting
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...Indeed, after a quiet half-decade, student activism saw an upsurge this spring. Less than a week after they broke their fast, the Stand for Security strikers would be joined on the activist platform by leaders of many campus ethnic groups who came together in a campaign to confront racism at the University...
Unfortunately, a housing shortage was not the only problem the College had to confront. Pusey also stressed the need for increased salaries for professors, an area in which the College was losing its previously “unchallenged lead to which no small part of Harvard’s present greatness may be attributed.” In a report to the Class of 1930 given by the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences McGeorge Bundy in 1955, he wrote that professorial salaries have not been able to keep up with the rises in cost of living. According...
...Senator Obama has also devoted his attention to less glamorous issues like helping to ensure additional funding to secure former Soviet nuclear materials and limiting access to conventional arms. He has sponsored bills that raise fuel-economy standards and directly confront the genocide in Darfur...
...poodle" for his support of the U.S. mission in Iraq. But his critics are unduly cynical, missing that it was Blair’s belief that drove his policy, not vice versa—he supported the mission in Iraq not to please President Bush, but to confront the spread of terrorism. He has long advocated a greater role for Britain in international affairs: He sent British troops to Kosovo to stop ethnic genocide, he traveled to Sierra Leone to help end its civil war, and he continues to support NATO’s mission in Afghanistan to stamp...
...Bush Administration has been unwilling take more aggressive action against European commercial concerns that trade openly with Iran, and it won't endorse the Obama-Frank or Sherman bill. State Department officials don't relish a repeat of the "freedom fries" confrontation with France and other European nations who opposed the invasion of Iraq. "We've been working with the Europeans and others to put together and maintain this unity and coalition to confront Iran, and that's achieved what we've gotten in terms of the Security Council," says a senior State Department official, referring to two U.N. Security...