Word: confrontive
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...Government assume the full costs of Medicaid and give the states more than 40 programs, including food stamps and welfare. But when Reagan's critics charged that the President had proposed the New Federalism to take attention away from his economic problems, White House aides urged Reagan to confront the spending furor directly. "It's better to face it than to try to run away from it," said...
...trail leads Ed and Beth Herman-at first abrasive adversaries, then trusting amateur detectives-through the blood-streaked boulevards of Santiago and into the American embassy's labyrinth of red-white-and-blue tape. There they confront the anesthetizing smile of Nixonian bureaucracy. It is also the place where the movie begins lumbering to a halt, elaborating the obvious with political ironies that stick their thumb in the viewer's eye. A story that could have made for a brisk jeremiad on 60 Minutes is stretched to 122 minutes of heroes fuming and villains purring their oleaginous apologies...
...conflicts in real life nor counteract his growing feeling of isolation, then he could at least face them in literature, and perhaps gain the "illusion of having both under control." Hayman begins the book with a short chapter that underlines Kafka's skill at using his fiction both to confront and masochistically magnify his fallings as a person, Kafka's short story. "The Judgment"--in which a father condemns his son for being a "devilish human being" and pronounces his death sentence, which the submissive son faithfully carries out--is a pivotal point in Kafka's ego-defensive writing...
...whereabouts. Among those arrested in the raid was Paolo Galati, 22, brother of Michele Galati, who is currently in prison for terrorist acts. Sources said Galati's name had been mentioned by Stefano Petrella after that brigatista's arrest in Rome. Police flew Petrella to Padua to confront Paolo Galati. Somehow, that meeting led police to the apartment on Via Pindemonte. As early as Tuesday, the U.S. embassy was informed that some sort of action to rescue Dozier was imminent...
...buying any of them. Nor is she covering her confusion with forgiveness. Better just not to speak to the creep. When Faith tries to avoid a scene by keeping George out of their handsome old Marin County house, George breaks in and pounds up the stairs to confront his eldest. She fights off his blend of bewildered love and rage. He spanks her. She threatens him with a scissors. They end in a sodden tangle of bodies and emotions...