Word: confrontive
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...Olympics, with its melodramatic, widely followed confrontation between Nancy Kerrigan and Tonya Harding, changed the sport dramatically. TV suddenly woke up to skating's telegenic grace, and the number of staged competitions-produced primarily for TV and lacking the strict rules that have governed amateur meets in the past-has multiplied. As a result, young skating stars today must not only beat back competition from the amateur ranks. They must also confront a new kind of rival: the pro skater. The stars who emerged from the past two Olympics have not faded into the half-life of touring ice shows...
Affirmative action and the much debated California Proposition 187--a proposal to deny federal services to illegal aliens--were also discussed as concerns which Asian-American will confront in the future...
...otherwise excellent article on clinical depression by Lana Israel ("Students Confront Clinical Despair," feature story, Feb. 8, 1995) contains three issues that could use clarification...
...long before that point is reached, the defense must confront the challenge of rehabilitating O.J.'s image in the wake of last week's evidence, which included another taped call to 911 in October 1993. On that one, O.J. had allegedly broken the back door of Nicole's home, and jurors listened to him screaming obscenities at her for 14 minutes...
...must simply vanish from this book. His pals, who miss and worry about him, mass at a provincial mansion to try and find out what is afoot. This ragtag cabal scans shards of Vowl's writings, an amalgam of mumbo-jumbo, looking for hints. Will chaos or stark fatality confront all participants of this odd squad of misfits, drawn inward in companionship to look for a missing Vowl...