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Word: confrontive (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Yale coach Mark Young said Straus may be ready to confront Harvard's best in the Easterns...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harriers Dominate Ivy Championships | 11/2/1981 | See Source »

...work, they believe they won't get any respect, they believe they'll be hard of hearing, and their teeth will fall out, and nobody will want them." The aging are into fitness all right, but anyone who wants to feel really old has only to confront another statistic. The huge baby-boom generation, which statistically has already helped bulge out of shape various U.S. institutions, including schools and colleges, is now age 27 to 35. Most of the 76 million boomers are finished with the drug culture and alternative therapies. Instead, many of them have seized...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America Shapes Up: One, two, ugh, groan, splash: get lean, get taut, think gorgeous | 11/2/1981 | See Source »

While Jordan's politice do pretend to address the needs of all Black Americans, he fails to confront the growing stratification within the Black community. In his recent speech at the Kennedy School Forum. Jordan, like many Black Harvard students in his audience, was unwilling to concede that the policies that have helped middle-class Blacks have done little for Blacks in Harlem...

Author: By Robert A. Watts, | Title: Failing to Help Those Who Need Help Most | 10/30/1981 | See Source »

...issue that Jordan and many campus Black leaders seem unable to confront is that the increase in black elected officials, the gains Blacks have made in managerial positions, and the presence of Blacks at elite universities have not significantly aided the lower classes. If anything, the gains enjoyed by middle-class Blacks have sometimes served to exacerbate the disappoinements and frustrations of the estimated 35 percent of Black Americans who are currently below the poverty line. The Black poor now see many of their brethren "making it" while their own sad conditions persist of in many cases worsen. One example...

Author: By Robert A. Watts, | Title: Failing to Help Those Who Need Help Most | 10/30/1981 | See Source »

mostly variations on the seven deadly sins. Gossip is a safe way of sorting out this amoral brawl. It is a form of improvisational daydreaming. "Both the virtue and vice of gossip," write Sabini and Silver, "is that one doesn't confront accusers, or demand proof...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: The Morals of Gossip | 10/26/1981 | See Source »

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