Word: confrontive
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...empathize with those leaders in the Black community who refuse to confront the serious problems tearing apart America's inner-cities. In the face of rampant crime, drug use and teen pregnancy, many Black leaders simply turn up the rhetoric and make excuses for these social diseases and--most recently--for Marion Barry. In doing so, they seem intent upon driving the Black underclass into further turmoil...
...face it, the plight of the Black underclass grows more uncontrollable every day. What's worse, the most helpless victims of ghetto crime and violence are not white or middle-class, but Black and poor. Yet rather than confront this breakdown in civilized behavior, many Black leaders continue to search for an oppressor...
...military face-off in the Persian Gulf does seem, as George Bush puts it, to be Iraq vs. the world. Twenty-four countries have sent powerful armies, fleets and air squadrons to confront a nation of 17 million people. If anyone needed proof that the days of old-fashioned gunboat diplomacy are gone, that should fill the bill. Iraq, along with many other Third World countries, has acquired such sophisticated, destructive armaments that even a superpower feels more comfortable about standing up to Baghdad with the help of allies...
...Americans were trying to answer it. How could George Bush -- the World War II bomber pilot, the Commander in Chief who invaded Panama and ousted its dictator, the leader who dispatched more than 200,000 U.S. troops to the Persian Gulf and ably assembled an international alliance to confront Saddam Hussein -- be so wishy- washy...
During his tenure as governor, Roemer has had to confront the legislature on several controversial issues, including abortion, capital punishment and free speech. In each case, Roemer said, he had "to examine personal values and beliefs like nothing else...