Walmart was confronting reports of bribery in Mexico, a wave of labor demonstrations in the United States and, perhaps most critically, questions about a grisly fire that had killed 112 workers at a Bangladeshi garment factory used by several Walmart suppliers.
Confronting reports of skyrocketing costs and outright fraud in New York State's preschool special education system, a group of companies that provide services to children with disabilities is calling for mandatory new audits, clearer regulations and a strict code of conduct with tough penalties for violators.
It is essential that Labor reconsider our support for government policy because over the last two years we have been confronted with report after report from credible sources that detail the commonplace violence, assaults, abuse and rapes suffered by asylum seekers and refugees on Nauru and Manus Island.
When first confronted by reports about the e-mails, Clinton reacted like a cornered perp, denying everything.
Public officials and transportation and business executives, confronted with reports Sunday night of an enormous blizzard in the offing, appeared to have little choice.
During the 2006 election, the Democratic establishment found itself momentarily mute when confronted with reports that Alan G. Hevesi, the state comptroller, might have broken the law by having state employees chauffeur his wife.
B1 Neediest Cases B4 OBITUARIES A17 ARTS B7-19 SPORTSSATURDAY D1-6 Bonds Enters Steroids Scandal Barry Bonds, who is on pace to become baseball's all-time leading home-run hitter, was confronted with reports of his grand jury testimony in the Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative steroid distribution case.
"It's a timely topic, because we are confronted with reports of research projects that often involve inadequate forms of consent," says Ruth Fischbach, a senior biomedical ethics advisor at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) who spoke at the meetings' session on bioethics.
Governing at a distance meant having trust in the staff, on the one hand, and discomfort and distrust when confronted with reports of malnutrition, on the other.
Television, in other words, offers opportunities to confront and report from the world as it changes.
Ted Beston, who was Savile's BBC Radio 1 producer, Canon Colin Semper, a producer in the religious broadcasting department who worked closely with Savile, and Douglas Muggeridge, controller of Radio 1 and Radio 2, all could have done more to tackle concerns and behaviour with which they were confronted, the report said.
