Word: confrontive
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sometimes that's challenged because people claim that they want to confront the witnesses and ask them questions, and that doesn't allow them to do that," said Golon...
...Harvard police confront a drunk person on Holyoke St. The man moves along...
...country spend much more time, and thousands-on-thousands of their bourgeois and working-class parents' hard-won income, on the annual "cakewalk"-type dance competition and festival, in addition to the usual social and partying events. They spend nowhere near equivalent time, energy and resources mounting mechanisms to confront the long-haul task of rolling back the myriad social pathologies among sections of the Black poor such as massive Black-on-Black crime, abysmal education performance and runaway teenage motherhood and fatherhood. So there is no legitimate political and social reason why Harvard College should extend its imprimatur...
Flawlessly attired in a black Chanel suit, Frances Lear gazes for a moment out her office window at the Madison Avenue traffic below. Then, whippet-like, she whirls to confront the semicircle of editors at her morning story conference. "What's the word we want?" she asks. Through owlish goggles she scrutinizes their faces, as if seeing them for the first time. Before anyone can answer, she darts to her chair and provocatively settles her slender black-stockinged legs on a cluttered coffee table. She sits stiffly, ladylike. Her expressive hands, with their buffed, not polished nails, beat...
...even as the CCSR--a standing committee of Harvard's seven-member chief governing board--prepares once again to confront the lingering South Africa investment question, many Harvard officials now say that divestment in itself is no longer the main issue...