Word: facing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...time to face up to reality," Dukakis said. "Without new revenues, there will be a drastic cut in both local aid and state services...
Events like these happen so often that Americans' sense of horror and outrage has been numbed. Death by gunfire has become nearly as banal in the U.S. as auto fatalities; shootings are so routine that they are sometimes ignored by the local news. Only by coming face to face with the needless victims does the wastefulness sink...
...that as a strong example of how to behave," Zhao says. "We might face the same fate or even worse if we go back...
Which gives Dalton a long overdue chance to re-invent the James Bond character. In Licence to Kill, Dalton is a spy with a vendetta. His dark, brooding face displays not the faintest hint of humor. And without necessarily being more violent than his predecessors, Dalton somehow manages to appear more brutal...
This time around, drugs are the cause of the day, and face it, they don't compare to nuclear warheads when it comes to striking fear into people's hearts. The horror stories of drugrelated murders that we read in the paper every day are terrifying, but they are a type of terror that is far more conventional than the thought of an entire city being vaporized by a lunatic with an itchy trigger finger...