Word: confrontive
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...some ways, it is regrettable that the rotation does not make a bigger difference. That reflects the stalemate in the region more broadly. The Arab states, hostage to Syria and its unique style of diplomacy, cannot formulate a policy to confront their two big challenges: the Arab-Israeli conflict and Iraq-Iran war. Indeed for many, including the oil-rich Arab states of the Gulf, it is the latter which directly threaten them and has top priority. To some that may seem a good thing. But the Arab-Israeli conflict has a peculiar tenacity. If the results of the Gulf...
...Land Where My Fathers Died, a lawyer in a small Massachusetts town takes on the case of a man accused of murdering a local physician. Archimedes Nionakis knows that his client is innocent. He also realizes that in trying to find the real killer, "I was going to confront nothing as pure and recognizable as evil but a sorrowful litany of flaws, of failures, of mediocre hopes, and of vanity." During the course of his investigation, Nionakis finds his already low-voltage ambition dimmed by the tawdriness he encounters around him. Knowing that his prosperous relatives wonder about...
Unlike State Sen. George Bachrach, whose decision to confront Bulger directly lost him a committee chairmanship, Howe said he would try to work through a coalition with other Senate liberals. "If [Bachrach] expected to stay in the Senate he would have shown a more consensus-building approach," Howe commented...
Ironically, the woes that confront so many thrift institutions come at a time when the outlook for the industry as a whole is much brighter than it has been in many years. Overall profits are expected to hit a record $6.5 billion this year, a strong rebound from the $4.6 billion loss suffered in 1981. The sharp drop in interest rates since 1981 has been responsible for much of the improvement. The fall in rates has reduced the interest that S and Ls pay to depositors faster than it has lowered the interest that the institutions earn on mortgages...
...performed at the College since his freshman year. "It's set in South Africa, but can apply anywhere," says the Government concentrator. "The play subtly lets you see how racism is ingrained in an institution, how a young boy doesn't realize it and then how he has to confront it," he says...