Word: confrontive
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...sitting there thinking about that final paper. It is hard to be concrete because such an awakening is very personal, and from this vantage point I can only vaguely make it out myself, there in the yellow wood. With courage, luck, and a year away, the stark realities will confront me at every turn, and I will learn from their challenges...
...program (most likely called 20/20) and expanding it to four or even five nights next season. The revised show may also include at least a few minutes of the day's news at the top of the hour. "It's one of the most important decisions ABC has confronted in recent years," says News president David Westin, "or will confront for some time to come...
...China. The president's summer travels will also take him to the People's Republic. In the first visit of an American president since Tiananmen, the world will be watching and wondering if Clinton will confront the Chinese on issues of human rights on their own turf. If he doesn't you can be sure that those protesters that greeted President Jiang here at Harvard and around the country last fall will be waiting for him when he comes home...
Although Springfest still has a long way to go, the council deserves our praise for at least beginning to confront its flaws...
...diffidence frustrates representative democracy by telling citizens their genuine opinions do not matter, which is just another way of saying they are incapable of self-government. To prove otherwise, we need to reclaim for politics such properly political matters as sexual harassment law. We need to compel Congress to confront such matters if we are to continue to demonstrate our capacity for self-government through representative democracy. In short, we need to re-politicize our politics...