Word: confrontive
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Even the best-intentioned men, once they enter the jungle of power politics, have to confront the necessity of directing actions that they would, in normal circumstances, be in clined to call immoral. The high-minded Abraham Lincoln, for example, was provoked by antiwar agitation into suspending the right of habeas corpus and arresting a number of peaceable citizens who had generally committed no crime worse than being Democrats...
...Mark Spelman, the head of Accenture's policy and corporate-affairs group, says the results are an indication of the growing complexity that managements the world over are now having to confront. "There's a realization that executives will have to deal with different dynamics going forward," Spelman says-an unsettling reality for companies that have tended to look at the world from a narrowly national angle. He cites research and development as a prime example: R&D centers, once kept close to domestic headquarters, have been springing up around the world as companies seek to lower product-development costs...
...society at greatest risk of slipping through the cracks, even through a supposedly improved safety net. The last thing a recently fired worker would want to deal with is having to realign access to healthcare. California, with its high percentage of agricultural and undocumented workers will need to confront this problem with ingenuity and determination...
...child whose parents call her their "pillow angel"; they think their critics don't understand the extreme nature of this case. The critics, especially advocates for the disabled, think the doctors don't understand the true cost of what they have done. Talk to all sides, and you confront every modern challenge in weighing what medicine can do vs. what it should...
...essence opens the way for U.S. forces to attack the Mahdi Army without political hindrances. In fact, as relations between Maliki and Sadr soured toward the end of 2006, the Prime Minister began to take a harder line with Sadr, at least rhetorically. Last week Maliki himself vowed to confront all armed groups, airing a thinly veiled threat to the Mahdi Army. But Maliki has issued similar statements before without offering any action. It's been difficult to tell whether Maliki lacks the will or simply the ability to launch military attacks against Sadr's militia, which clashed openly with...