Word: facing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...family." The agent kissed Adamita on the lips and told him, "You're under arrest." That dramatic bust in a Manhattan motel last week was part of a roundup of more than 100 people suspected of belonging to a Sicilian Mafia heroin and cocaine ring. Dozens of other suspects face charges in locales extending from Cleveland to Puerto Rico, as part of the biggest drug case ever developed by the U.S. and Italy...
...context, the sentence expressed a pointed criticism of Jackson's lack of traditional qualifications for the presidency. But the reaction illustrates the difficulties Democrats face in holding Jackson to the same standards as other candidates. "The unfortunate thing is that the line might give off the appearance of being racist, which is certainly not what Gore intended," said a nervous campaign adviser. Jackson's initial response was artful: "When Gore said in several debates that he would endorse me if I were the party's nominee, he knew of my vocation at that time." The ire of Jackson's advisers...
There are several theories to explain the surface equanimity of traditional Democrats in the face of the Jackson groundswell. For some it simply reflects an innate sense of fairness, coupled with the fear that any overt stop-Jackson movement would be perceived as racism. Others calculate that the Democrats are doomed to defeat if Jackson is either nominated or rebuffed and that permanently alienating his black supporters would do far greater long-term damage to the party...
...burgeoning contingent of Asian performers also boasts the tiny 16-year- old Japanese prodigy Midori (born Midori Goto), a student of noted Violin Teacher Dorothy DeLay at Juilliard. Midori's robust tone and strong technique -- and her uncanny composure in the face of two broken strings during her performance of Leonard Bernstein's Serenade -- stunned a Tanglewood audience on a muggy summer night two years ago at a Boston Symphony concert led by Bernstein...
...pilgrims shuffle along, muttering ritual chants. Just before dawn, as the snowcaps behind take on a deep pink glow, the crowd that has formed outside the three-story Namgyal Temple in northern India falls silent. A strong, slightly stooping figure strides in, bright eyes alertly scanning the crowd, smooth face breaking into a broad and irrepressible smile. Followed by a group of other shaven-headed monks, all of them in claret robes and crested yellow hats, the newcomer clambers up to the temple roof. There, as the sun begins to rise, his clerics seated before him and the solemn, drawn...