Word: facing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Harvard men's water polo team qualified for the Eastern Tournament this weekend in Annapolis, Md. The Crimson, Seeded sixth, will face off against Massachusetts in the first round Saturday. The Minutemen already have beaten Harvard this season...
Helms bested Harvey Gantt in his marquee race for reelection in a contest that pitted one of the nation's best known conservatives against a former Black mayor. "I'm sorry I'm so late," he told supporters, "but I've been home watching the grieving face of Dan Rather...the liberal politicians and editors and commentators and columnists have struck out again...
...same level of development in terms of the problems and challenges we face. Iraq and the person of its President were subjected to a concerted effort to portray them in this ((bad)) way, and over a long period of time, not just since this crisis. Iraq has frightened some in this area to the point that they are saying something must be done about this new phenomenon. Only Saddam can correct this image...
Christensen tries not to let the occasional rejection deter him. "I can hear no, see no, in someone's face," he says. "I don't have to push to make it a yes. That's not my job." He says he learned an important lesson from his dying brother: "My responsibility was not to save him but to love him and give what I could. My responsibility is to love the children, to give joy and celebration, not to make them accept it. That's their choice." Fortunately for all concerned, most do accept the gentle medicine of Dr. Stubs...
...both of them were beyond the reach of infamy. The 74-year- old Casey died of a brain tumor just before he was to face the Iran-contra committee. Presidential aide Michael Deaver wrote that the director thus became "the logical candidate to be fingered as the evil genius behind Iran- contra. The secrets would be buried with him. And the President would be protected...