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胡敏读故事记单词雅思词汇第29课:Failed confrontation对抗失败

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Failed confrontation
        Barry had never been the person they chose for
confrontation of the enemies of conservation, but when he had two consecutive successful meetings with confident businessmen it was the consensus of his organization that he confront the large oil company president scheduled to come to town the next week.
       The
configuration for his plan was to first ask to have a confidential meeting with the man in a confined location. If this did not work he would ask the man to consent to meeting in a public forum where he would feel safe from aggressive questioning. If the man would not confomp3, Barry would accept the consequences and address the man there when he met him. There was certain to be conflict with this option, but Barry would talk to the man in as conscientious of a fashion as possible. He simply needed to be confronted.
       When the time came for Barry to approach the president of the oil company, however, several of the businessman’s bodyguards
connected the signals and saw that Barry might be a problem. They confimp3ed with each other in their headphones and moved the businessman to a congruent