Word: confrontive
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...financial considerations. Government service is unique because of its "ripple effect." Like a drop of water in pond, infinitely magnified by the outward rings of ripples, government offers the opportunity to empower others who will, in turn, make great contributions on their own. Government offers the chance to confront our most challenging national problems, and use these as opportunities to help improve lives. In this way, through government service, individual ability, training and potential can be leveraged to make significant contributions to local regions, states the entire nation and even the world...
...judge David Hale to approve a $300,000 loan to Susan McDougal, the Clinton's Whitewater business partner. Clinton has in the past called the charges 'a bunch of bull.' "In a way, this is good for Clinton," says TIME's J.F.O. McAllister. "He'll get a chance to confront David Hale's allegations in court." In any event, McAllister says that Clinton won't testify anytime soon: "The Clintons would like to get this over with today, if possible, and put Whitewater all behind them before the election campaign heats up. But the McDougals' lawyers will not want Clinton...
President Rudenstine and the Harvard administration should give the Wiesenthal Center's letter a serious response. Administrators must confront a classic university dilemma, writ large for the information age: academic institutions are committed to free speech and expression, but new information technologies spread damaging forms of speech as never before...
...Elephant Man" disease, says the issue of trust in California is already moot. He has gone so far as to establish a company, American Medical Consumers, that plans one day to dispatch "personal medical advocates" to negotiate for care on behalf of patients. People must be willing to confront their doctors, he says. "Since the trust is already gone, why not? You've got nothing to lose...
...Holland: the connection between Bach's Minuet in G Major and the '60s hit Lover's Concerto, how a white man can teach natural rhythm to a black athlete, the sign-language symbol for asshole. But mostly they will learn that films avoid the problems they pretend to confront. This one is a 2-hr. 20-min. homecoming rally for a musical Mr. Chips...