Word: confrontive
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...weeks, the Black and white head for Lake Waramaug in New Preston, Conn, for the Eastern Sprints. The heavies will confront the most talented crews including the top-ranked Badgers from Wisconsin, whom they don't race during the regular season...
...economic conservative with a strong sense of social justice, he was about to become President at a time when Brazil's economic crisis (a $102 billion foreign debt and an annual inflation rate of 230%) required determined action rather than inflammatory rhetoric. Though he never had a chance to confront those problems, he came to represent for 134 million Brazilians--rich and poor, liberal and conservative--the belief that equitable economic solutions could be found...
April 11: Nearly 100 protesters confront President Bok on University South Africa investment polices in front of the Graduate School of Education During the 20 minute dialogue. Bok defends Harvard's policy of intensive dialogue with corporations doing business in South African as a way of improving the lives of South African Blacks...
...neither is fully satisfied with himself. This complicated mixture of love and jealously, hate and loyalty, repeatedly erupts in unspoken competition for the same women. Cinematographer Michael Bauhaus transforms the neon of L.A. into feverish yellows and red that bathe the discos and hambutget stands where Eli and Blue confront themselves and each other: music by Langerine Dream and Nona Hendris lends a funks and somewhat warped surreal feeling to the goings...
...agenda, calling for a new round of negotiations under the auspices of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade. Several lawmakers voted in favor of last week's House and Senate measures with the hope that Reagan, even though he did not support them, will be able to confront Nakasone with the dire prospect of U.S. retaliation if Japan fails to become a fairer trading partner. "A shotgun behind the door" was the way House Majority Leader Jim Wright of Texas described the Senate bill. Even if Reagan does not pull the trigger, he will surely have Nakasone's undivided...