Word: facing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fields ranging from entertainment and sports to education and public transportation, ultra-Orthodox militants, who make up only about 6% of the country's population, are fighting to impose their religious views on the majority. In the face of that onslaught, many non-Orthodox Israelis have responded with anger and resentment. Warns Uriel Reichman, dean of Tel Aviv University law school: "These things only create hatred of religion. For the vast majority of Israelis, their delight in Jewish tradition is being taken away...
...Catholic nationalists turned violent. The gun battles and bombings of the 1970s reduced whole blocks to rubble, and some neighborhoods became deadly "no-go" zones, where even Ulster police and British troops feared to enter. When at last the violence began to subside in 1982, Britain backed a major face-lift for the blighted city. Crumbling old slums and bomb sites were rebuilt as part of a $1.4 billion housing program for low-income districts...
...sexual escapade into which Bakker and fellow Preacher John Fletcher allegedly conscripted her in 1980. Now she is on the cover of the November Playboy, which paid about three- quarters of a million dollars for an interview ("I'm not a bimbo," she said) and topless photo layout. Her face has become familiar on such shows as Larry King Live and Good Morning, America. Her lawyer, Dominic Barbara, speaks of possible mini-series and books to come -- "her only way of collecting compensation and fighting back...
...Pentagon's tough position, which took hold during the Reagan Administration's early years and succeeded in boosting Western vigilance against the world's technobandits, now faces growing criticism in the face of America's staggering trade deficits (last year's gap: $170 billion). One group, the Electronics Industries Association, estimates that export controls are costing the U.S. some $9 billion in lost business and 225,000 jobs every year as foreign suppliers rush to fill the orders refused by American companies...
...week's end Rabuka had done another about-face. He revoked the Constitution, declared himself head of state and said he would proclaim Fiji a republic on Oct. 10. The colonel's latest change of heart apparently came under pressure from the Taukei Movement, a group of militant Fijians who are demanding that ethnic Indians be excluded from power. Indians dominate Bavadra's Labor Party and slightly outnumber ethnic Fijians among the island chain's 725,000 people...