Word: confrontive
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...natural behavior that Congressmen will go to extremes to duck accountability. The only way Congress could muster the moxie to close 86 outmoded military bases was first to appoint a commission whose recommendations will automatically take effect in April unless rescinded by both houses. To mask its inability to confront the deficit, Congress created the Gramm-Rudman guillotine, which arbitrarily cuts the budget if compromise fails...
...social problem of these dimensions cries out for close, active attention. We can no longer avert our eyes, admitting that there is a problem but refusing to confront it; neither can we become so hardened to the problem that compassion and empathy no longer exist. If the latter scenario ever becomes commonplace, we will have lost the last remnants of our humanity...
...event. Its scope was political as well, addressing minority concerns such as admissions restrictions, the dearth of minority faculty, and the lack of a minority voice on campus. In this manner, the SAC's and Hillel's inability to contact each other may be symptomatic of a reluctance to confront a more central issue: whether Jews should still be considered "minorities...
...both his life and his death, Bundy demonstrated the fragility of our society and our self-image. As Bundy told The New York Times in 1986, "if anyone considers me a monster that's just something they'll have to confront in themselves. For people to want to condemn someone, to dehumanize someone like me is a very popular and effective and understandable way of dealing with a fear and a threat that is incomprehensible...
...experience within that decision-making process and the resolution of the Cuba and Berlin conflicts that leads Bundy to write, "Leaders on both sides have been sane, and they have also been watched by sane associates." Bundy is encouraged by the ability of world leaders to confront delicate situations which have held a nuclear threat and emerge from those dilemmas relatively unscathed. While he writes that "these examples ought to never by repeated," he adds that we can remain comforted by the fact that policymakers have so far had the personal ability and administrative support to avoid disaster...