Word: facing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Bush and Ortega traded barbed comments from afar before the face-to-face meeting, and the president made a point of giving Nicaraguan opposition candidate Violeta Chamorro a kiss when they met. She was an invited guest at Arias' diplomatic conference, and Bush was holding a coffee for her and Panamanian political figure Guillermo Endera today to underscore his opposition to the two governments they are battling...
...computer opponents, Sargon 4 and Deep Thought, should not pose too much difficulty for the Soviet champ. The reason Kasparov made this tour of the U.S. was to face Deep Thought, acclaimed as toughest chess computer opponent ever devised...
...faces a daunting task: trying to increase the paltry numbers of women and minority scholars in FAS in the face of tradition-bound hiring practices and, in many cases, a dwindling pool of candidates...
...minus side, it may be that some of the things I do this year are very naive, [things] I would not have done with more experience," says Mas-Colell. "On the plus side, perhaps it's a new face on the block. Perhaps I am less conditioned by the previous way to do things...
...Some people say that socialism must have ahuman face," he said. "To that phrase, my responseis that Frankenstein's [monster] had a human facetoo...