Word: facing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard, last year's Ivy League champion, dropped out of the title race two weeks ago after losing to Princeton. The Crimson is in position to influence who wears the crown. Harvard will face the University of Pennsylvania (5-0 Ivy League) next Saturday in Philadelphia...
...Annie Bureau, a French birth-control expert: "This product constitutes both scientific progress and an advantage for women." Faye Wattleton, president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America, who deplored Roussel's decision to drop RU 486 as "a tragic display of cowardice," called the company's about-face "the right decision for the women of France and, indeed, for women all over the world...
...fact, the current outbreak of relative peace and the potential for a changed U.S.-Soviet relationship under Mikhail Gorbachev present an immense new foreign policy challenge that the candidates have yet to face: managing what may be the last stages of the cold war and inventing a new world role for the U.S. in an international system that may, in our lifetime, no longer be defined by the East-West struggle. Instead, the foreign policy debate in the campaign has focused mainly on two peripheral issues: drugs and trade...
...anticipating more than we were. Part of this, obviously, is my own temperament. I am by instinct not someone who enjoys cutting up the other guy. That's not the way to get things done. It just gets in the way. I wanted to put a strong positive face on my campaign...
...dealing with terrorism inside our occupied territories. We will continue struggling and resisting occupation, which is the legal way. People who face oppression or occupation, according to the U.N. Charter, have that right. You Americans tasted British occupation and you faced it; Europe tasted Nazi occupation and faced it. We have the right to do the same...