Word: facing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...comer is the children-of-alcoholics movement, aimed at the nearly 30 million offspring of chronic drinkers in the U.S. Made up of a variety of organizations, the movement took off four years ago with the best-selling book Adult Children of Alcoholics, a guide to the dilemmas C.O.A.s face, by Janet Geringer Woititz, a human-relations counselor in Verona...
...Government, not of the so-called enterprise operated by retired Major General Richard Secord and his Iranian- born partner, Albert Hakim. Diverting those profits to the Nicaraguan contras "constituted a misappropriation of government funds," the report claims. If Walsh and a federal grand jury concur, Secord and Hakim may face indictments. So, too, may former National Security Adviser John Poindexter, who approved the diversion, and former-NSC Staffer Oliver North, who directed the enterprise...
...South Africa has been accomplished peacefully, if not always amicably. A national poll of white South Africans conducted early this year found that 52% regarded gray areas as acceptable, while 46% thought they should not be permitted. Increasingly, white South Africans find that they have little choice but to face reality. "Hillbrow is already a multiracial area, and no one is going to change that," says Leon de Beer, who represents the community in Parliament. "You can't unscramble a scrambled...
...Western officials hope to fortify an export-control system that is clearly overloaded, underfunded and outdated. Since World War II, Western countries have jointly agreed on which products should be restricted through the Paris-based Coordinating Committee for Multilateral Export Controls (COCOM). But as new items proliferate, regulatory agencies face what one observer calls a "world of grays," a mass of technical detail required for every licensing decision. Officials are finding it harder to monitor thousands of proscribed exports, as the line between military and civilian products becomes blurred and the potential uses of new products keep changing...
...course, always a pleasure to watch Martin's steam-gauge face register his rising internal pressures and to witness his exquisitely expressed blowoffs. But Candy offers even more insinuating delights. Covering lonely need with empty gab, insecurity with a not entirely trustworthy savvy, he is the most dangerous kind of pest, the type who worms rather than blusters his way into your life. The movie works the same way. For all its broadly farcical air, Planes, Trains and Automobiles finally seals its bond with the audience in the same way that Martin and Candy seal theirs, with...