Word: confrontive
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...nominate Leonid Brezhnev for Man of the Year. He could be Man of the Decade. Hasn't one of the main criteria for being a U.S. President, the most powerful job on earth, been whether he can confront Brezhnev eyeball to eyeball...
Though Alexander Haig's opinions on foreign policy are not widely known, he has expressed his thoughts emphatically in recent speeches and interviews on some of the main issues he will confront as Secretary of State...
...other developed countries, the damage has been equally severe. The rising cost of crude has flooded international banks with billions upon billions in petrodollars, and strained the world monetary system to the breaking point. Nations everywhere now confront the prospect of a long period of slow growth. France's recently released five-year economic plan for the first time makes no growth predictions at all. Rather, it says darkly, "tomorrow will be worse than today...
...bases programs and - a and saddlebag compare that with the total received from the states in taxes and other revenues - $14.5 billion -and Washington comes up $6 billion short. Admits Idaho Democratic Senator Frank Church, who was voted out of office last month: "As beneficiaries, we are reluctant to confront or confess the federal largesse because it cuts across the grain of our pioneer spirit...
...doubt the current Harvard Administration could make students who now feel racial, sexual, and class humiliation here feel somewhat better. But you ignore another obvious problem. Evidently what makes students feel most deeply humiliated here is the way students who feel superior to them treat them. Your refusal to confront "normal" student prejudices is a cheap forfeit of a major struggle...