All of this misses or trivialises the real, systemic significance of climate change: that humankind is encountering the finitude of our planet, confronting the need to share and protect our endowment from nature, and realising that much will have to change to make this possible.
The school districts nationwide are only now confronting the need for tighter and more efficient business practices.
From the 1960s through the 1980s, confronting the need for greater civil rights, gender and sexual equality incited two generations to distrust institutional and absolute power.
Moreover, because of the patchiness of the environment on the large, and, frequently even on a small scale with respect to such parameters, microorganisms confront the needs of adjusting to microhabitats that may be only inches apart, but that make significant distinctive demands on their adaptability.
The research team will confront the needs reported by the patients in phase 1 with the interventions selected, in order to relate them in multiple directions.
But the situation is about to become much trickier, as we confront the need to reduce carbon emissions on the way to a cleaner environment.
Like the 19th-century industrial cities in Europe and the United States, Buenos Aires confronted the need for physical expansion beyond a dense historical core.
This engagement with lawmakers is likely to matter much more to Facebook in coming months, as the company confronts the need to turn the data provided by its 901 million users into faster, greater returns for its new, hungry shareholders.
But its aftermath forces us to confront the need for adjustment with greater urgency.America has both a cyclical challenge the economy is operating far below potential and a structural one: it depends too much on consumption and fiscal support.
Asian family firms whose founders are preparing to pass the baton to a new generation will all, sooner or later, confront the need to plan not only for management succession, but also for ownership succession.
