Word: confrontive
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...Michael Cato, who were accused of killing Riggs to collect his $175,000 life insurance policy. Last week Judge Vesta Svenson dismissed the murder charge against Toni Riggs, ruling that Cato's confession could not be used as evidence against her because it violated her Sixth Amendment right to confront her accuser...
Arab states like Egypt, for example, contend that such talks should take place in an international forum. Israel insists on direct negotiations with each Arab state. If the conference does convene, it will have to confront an even more fundamental conflict: the Arabs demand the return of the territory Israel conquered in the 1967 war; Israel's leaders say never...
...years, and the figures are rising. Think of this in terms of the apocalyptic visions of the Gulf War, the predictions that 20,000 American lives would be lost, and one is made aware of the unconscionable oversight of urban death taking place every day as we refuse to confront this problem...
James L. Medoff, one of Harvard's leading labor economists and Kestnbaum professor of labor and industry, says many companies are now facing this issue as they formulate policies and confront discrimination complaints...
...final fade-out. So Bonfire ends in a brotherhood-of-man speech instead of a race riot. The evil nurse in Misery doesn't chop her captive's foot off with an ax; she breaks it with a mallet. The heroine in Sleeping with the Enemy doesn't bravely confront her husband on her own terms; she cringes like a silent-film maiden tied to the railroad tracks. Plus ca change. Movies, even if they have literary beginnings, still need Hollywood endings...