Word: conundrum
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...show seemed caught in its title’s own conundrum, one part serious intellectual debate, the other part made-for-TV testimony...
Recent hits with the youth market have tended to be flukes. Despite Honda's sales conundrum with the Element, the automaker has one of Gen Y's most popular brands, in large part because its durable little Civic scored with hot rodders who decided to customize it with turbochargers, flashy rims and other trimmings. Honda now holds 12% of the under-25 market (the favored industry shorthand for Gen Y) vs. a 6% share of the overall market, according to the research firm J.D. Power. The mystery is that the Civic was not particularly designed for or targeted to young...
Before we dive into some of the other scientific discoveries that have so thoroughly transformed the debate, it helps to understand how deeply entrenched in our intellectual history the false dichotomy of nature vs. nurture became. Whether human nature is born or made is an ancient conundrum discussed by Plato and Aristotle. Empiricist philosophers such as John Locke and David Hume argued that the human mind was formed by experience; nativists like Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Immanuel Kant held that there was such a thing as immutable human nature...
...pressure with escalation rather than concession. If neither diplomacy nor pressure succeeds, then the options are reduced to two: either deploy the military or live with a nuclear North Korea. Only one of these options is consistent with the Bush Doctrine. Here, then, is a classic public policy conundrum: one big problem, no good options. Only the credibility of the Bush doctrine and the security of the United States are at stake...
...There are some critiques of drag, even—or especially—in gay communities,” he says. “It presents a conundrum, because it might be perceived as misogynistic. It tends to perpetuate stereotypes of a certain kind of woman...