On foreign policy, the new administration will confront difficult questions about how to deal with unstable and potentially aggressive nations like Iraq and North Korea.

Can the administration find the culprit, confront the moral issues and turn a crisis into a public relations coup?

But he said the case would likely end up before the courts again because the administration would not confront its suburban constituents by limiting the amount they can spend on their schools.

Advocates for low-income people are already sounding alarms here in Washington, arguing that Congress and the administration must confront the problem or face renewed growth in the number of uninsured.

But the administration confronts a dilemma if intelligence officials determine that a foreign country was complicit in today's attacks.

Thirty years after the first Earth Day, the incoming administration was still confronting power-plant smokestacks spewing fumes.

City officials said yesterday that the meetings were delayed as the administration confronted new fiscal bad news and began wrangling with the City Council.

The administration and the two parties in Congress are confronting not only a return to budget deficits but the needs created by the war on terrorism and the recession, as well as the normal election-year pressures for more spending.

As the administration now confronts a recalcitrant Senate, after the House passed the tax cut on a party-line vote, conservatives are hoping to raise the heat.

As its first priority, the new administration must confront Latin America's debt problems head-on.