Word: facing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first time in the history of Harvard softball, the Crimson had a chance to capture the Ivy title. But it had to face six-time defending champion Princeton...
...tragic consequences of drug taking during pregnancy. Experts estimate that 375,000 newborns a year have been exposed to illegal drugs, frequently cocaine. Cocaine babies, as they are called, are more likely to be born prematurely or to die before birth. They tend to be abnormally small and face an increased risk of deformities or crib death. Moreover, there are strong indications that all these babies suffer some form of neurological damage. Says Darron Castiglione, supervisor of the child-abuse division of the Hollywood, Fla., police department: "These infants don't have a chance in life. They will never...
...remember that Noriega does not respond constructively to threats. Each time the Reagan Administration rattled a saber, he dug in harder. The most promising effort to negotiate Noriega's departure was engineered last year by Spain and Venezuela, which listened attentively to his demands and appreciated the need for face-saving measures. That attempt was cut short by disagreements over who would handle Noriega's exodus...
...theory holds that Jones, who never married and may have been homosexual, was kept by one or another of the powerful exquisites of the Elizabethan court, the Earl of Essex or the Earl of Southampton. But whatever his arrangements, his taste for European travel and study would change the face of English culture. As curator Harris points out, Jones was the first in what would be a long line of English intellectual travelers, bringing lessons back from the Continent...
...getting magic and the occult and the New Age. There's a return to a premodern world view." Mouw, an Evangelical, asserts that the churches were seriously mistaken in seeking to duck the age-old questions: "Who am I as a human being before God? How can I face my own death? How can I be forgiven for my very real sins...