Word: confrontation
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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WALK into any so-called health food store and you'll soon see that most are like franchised versions of the old side-show huckster who promises love with his magic potions and elixirs. Somewhere in front of the legumes you'll confront some of the ever-present, catchy slogans that infiltrate our fitness mentality : CRASH WEIGHT GAIN, RIPPED 'ABS' IN FIVE SECONDS, LOSE WEIGHT WHILE YOU SLEEP, BIG BICEPS WHILE YOU DO NOTHING BUT SPEND MONEY ON THIS PRODUCT...
...course there are those students who would not have attended the conference no matter what issues it addressed. Perhaps their inattendance would have been more easily explained if students had honestly felt too ignorant, too intimidated or too embarrassed of their own attitudes to confront the issues...
...such. Islam has been called the second largest religion in America, and the fastest growing. There are five million Muslim Americans, with one million being converts to Islam. As individuals, we are contributing members of this society, and our hope is to become more involved in the issues which confront all of us: poverty, abuse, break-up of families and communities, prejudice, crime, and the lack of goodwill, respect, and trust between people...
...natural behavior that Congressmen will go to extremes to duck accountability. The only way Congress could muster the moxie to close 86 outmoded military bases was first to appoint a commission whose recommendations will automatically take effect in April unless rescinded by both houses. To mask its inability to confront the deficit, Congress created the Gramm-Rudman guillotine, which arbitrarily cuts the budget if compromise fails...
...just commonplace sentiments about how "we must take a strong America and make it even better." This failure of rhetoric can be excused, for as the President said, now "it's time to govern." But governance requires agonizing choices, and Bush, like his mentor Ronald Reagan, stoutly declined to confront them publicly. The President's program, as he defined it, is all gain and no pain, with scant need to explain the inherent contradictions...