Word: confrontive
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Brigham and Women's was itself the product of a previous merger, when Peter Bent, Brigham and the Boston Lying-In Hospital joined in hospitable matrimony. Now, hospital leaders must once again confront the perennial problem law firms face: Whose name goes first...
...want to be the Grinch. I don't relish the position of condemning other students' religious practices. But by putting their tree--"X-mass," Christmas, Holiday, or whatever you call it--in my dining hall, those students are forcing me to confront the ideology of Christian communal identity three times...
...create evil, especially in situ, and especially on this scale and at this length (3 hr., 15 min.), is of course to confront it. And the experience was shattering. As Spielberg walked through his crowds of extras, gesturing people this way and that because he did not speak their language, it suddenly occurred to him that Josef Mengele, the notorious concentration-camp physician, "gestured people to the left or the right. One direction was death; the other was one more day of life. I felt like a Nazi...
...second is having to confront a loss of something or someone that is so essential to one's sense of self that it seems impossible to go on without it. In addition to major losses in real life, this may also occur when one feels unable to live up to expectations held by others, expectations that have also come to define one's own sense of self esteem. The third is the situation in which a major mental disturbance has led to delusional thinking and loss of reality testing, leaving one vulnerable to irrational concepts of the consequences of self...
Kennedy praised the current political climate and the government's attempts to confront the nation's economic programs. "We've taken a giant step forward by coming to grips with the budget crunch," he said...