Word: confronts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Berlin's mayor stated openly that be is "in favor of keeping the atomic club closed," but warned emphatically that the day is near when most nations that want nuclear weapons can have them. He urged that the West "not cease to confront the Soviet Union" with serious proposals on disarmament...
This part of its fall program, the membership approved plans for a series of formal dinner seminars in the Houses. A purpose of the seminars, according Marc J. Roberts '64, will be to confront the members of a future national elite with the major domestic and international questions of our time and encourage them to think seriously about them. An incidental purpose will be to interest students in other HRLU activity...
This is a large order, I know. Nevertheless, it may be the real challenge of the universities, especially the "private" universities, in this now lengthening postwar period. We must, of course, be grateful for the developments in the natural sciences and in medicine, though both confront us with great problems in other areas...
...another. Mused an economist from Morocco, which still does two-thirds of its foreign trade with Europe's Common Market: "No matter how much good will we have toward Ghana and Guinea, there's only so much cocoa and bananas we can absorb." Similar hurdles also confront Africa's two other common markets. One of them is a loose, twelve-nation union largely consisting of former French West African colonies. It is hampered by the reluctance of richer members such as Cameroun and Gabon to get too involved with such poorer sisters as Chad. The other African...
...number of proposals have been advanced to remedy this situation. Some would require that all exams bear detailed comments; others suggest that each student have a right to confront his grader. One of the more unique suggestions is that Sanford A. Lakoff, assistant professor of Government. The present student-faculty ratio, Lakoff says, makes it "utopian" to expect elaborate comments or an individual session with a grader. Many courses might improve matters by devoting a special meeting to a "post-mortem" on the exam, but half-courses would find this difficult...