Word: facing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Cice '89-'90, who has since become co-chair of the BGLSA. (While Cice's door displays stickers for the environmental group Greenpeace, a bumper sticker on Granieri's door urges support for the Contras, noting that "Every Communist they kill now is one less you'll have to face later.") Granieri says the homophobia controversy put a strain on their relationship, but that the two are still friends...
...swore that he would be the "education President," yet his current budget, in fact, calls for a reduction in education spending. In a similar vein, Bush has repeatedly proclaimed a greater sensitivity to the needs of our environment than his predecessor held, but still showed remarkable passivity in the face of the Alaskan oil spill, seeming reluctant to confront one of the nation's major oil companies...
...cold war made thinking simpler in a "four legs good, two legs bad" (the Animal Farm axiom) sort of way. But simpler doesn't mean better. There could be no happier outcome for the cold war than for us to win it and for old cold warriors to face the invigorating challenge of rethinking from the ground up what America's role in the world, if any, ought...
...hedonism with bawdy, invigorating wit; silence may be her best defense in the presence of her new lover, but she is irrepressibly outspoken when she sets pen to paper. "Look, I'm really something, me," she tells herself. "And also I am nothing," she continues, in a characteristic about-face. "I am the debris of the world, product of a series of unconsidered and unnatural matings, between the proud, the mad and the murderous...
...failed to flex the Super 301 muscle firmly enough. They contended that Japanese barriers extended well beyond the three areas cited, to items ranging from cellular phones and medical equipment to fish products and aluminum. "The Administration's feeble use of the Super 301 provision comes in the face of our continuing trade deficit," said Missouri Democrat Richard Gephardt, whose tough trade proposals gave rise to the Super 301 legislation. "((Bush)) has signaled to the world that he will take ((Japan's)) trade abuse lying down...