Word: confrontive
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...main point in having this meeting was to give BSA members an opportunity to confront him," Gayle said...
While I was telling the guy behind the counter what I wanted on my sandwich, some woman ran in screaming about about some guy who was choking her friend. The man behind the counter ran out of the store to confront the assailant while his assistant called the police. As we ate our subs, the police arrived and interviewed the Subway workers...
...This week, still bruised from last year's criminal neglect of "The Insider," I was skittish. So I didn't so much confront the nominations this year - I sidled up to them. I had my own list of favorites for Best Picture (which is, of course, the granddaddy of sugar-coated American movie awards) and while I was fairly confident the Academy and I would not see eye to eye (we never have in the past, why should we now?) I couldn't quite abandon hope...
...meeting with Rudenstine is only one of several steps the BSA has taken to confront Mansfield. The group has also submitted an editorial to the Crimson, staged a sit-in during one of Mansfield's classes and scheduled meetings with other Harvard administrators...
...serious issues of distribution and social stratification, questions of homogeneity, and further repercussions, perhaps as wide-ranging as those of industrialization, that we cannot yet predict. Perhaps, in the end, genetic engineering will need to be banned. But there is nothing uniquely apocalyptic about genetic engineering, and we must confront it in the same way we should confront every new development: with our ethics clear and our eyes open...