Word: confrontive
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...Confront everyone, make noise, take your case to the Village Voice and the New York Times. This, Rafsky believed, was the way to eventually find a cure for AIDS...
Frank S. Jones '50 says he only recently has been able to confront the racist attitudes--both subtle and overt--that he faced as one of only three or four Black students in his class...
...problems women face at The Crimson are not unique to The Crimson. Other campus organizations confront similar cultural difficulties. Women face cultural barriers in classes and sections. In Harvard's sometimes confrontational, sometimes contentious discourse, women often struggle to make their voices heard...
...problems awaiting anyone brave enough to confront them are enormous. The number of AIDS cases in the city has exploded, while the number of welfare recipients has also steadily increased. The war on drugs has turned out to be little more than a skirmish awarding drug dealers the decided victory. In a city where the policemen must use pistols to fend against semi-automatic machine guns, it's small wonder that crime has steadily risen. In fact, New York currently leads the nation in number of policeman shot this year...
...keynote address Saturday to an audience of about 70 at the Hynes Convention Center, Dr. Joycelyn Elders said society needs to confront such issues as poverty and drug abuse...