MCHM was largely a mystery to the officials who now confronted the task of containing it.
But now, as families confront the task of determining who is entitled to what in the estates of the Sept. 11 victims, conflicts small and large are breaking out, compounding the sadness, heartache and anger for already badly damaged families.
But the decision does reflect a tough call Mr. Gerstner made seven years ago, shortly after he arrived at I.B.M. to confront the task of turning around what was then a loss-ridden company.
In doing so he recognised the fact that science had dominated the agenda of the preceding dozen gatherings but that delegates in Durban knew they had to confront the task of reaching poor people in poor countries, or as the jargon says "resource-poor settings".
Our nervous systems are designed to use these real time feedback loops to manage the flow of body resources to confront the task of survival.
This transformation has the potential to support students' proving activities and give them powerful new body-based resources with which to confront the task, as shown in the first transcript.
And even now, I confront the tasks with which she helps me each day with a mixture of the guilt and gratitude, resentment and appreciation, anger and bemusement.
Another geeky productivity scheme with an online following, Autofocus achieves something similar using cleverly structured to-do lists to "force" the user to confront the tasks they've resolutely been avoiding.
In New Zealand, most older people are owner-occupiers and they must therefore confront the tasks of making good their dwellings and dealing with insurance companies after an adverse event.
Thus, Spanish piety was in some ways connected with that of the Netherlands, but the extraordinary outburst of mystical and contemplative activity in 16th-century Spain was mainly an expression of the intense religious exaltation of the Spanish people themselves as they confronted the tasks of reform, Counter-Reformation, and world leadership.
