Word: conundrum
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...Milliken v. Bradley decision laid the groundwork for today's desegregation conundrum. Had Boston's federal district court been able to embrace the school systems of such storied American communities as Concord and Lexington, there would have been more whites with whom to integrate and less criticism that Judge Arthur Garrity's order did little more than mix "poor blacks" with "poor whites." But it would be naive to imagine that most suburban whites would obediently put their children on the bus to the inner city. Suburban families might have thrown fewer rocks than did the working-class whites...
...nearly as familiar now as Rembrandt's wife Saskia or Picasso's serial wives and mistresses. But it would be a mistake to suppose that we know much about her from these pictures, where her impregnability is the plainest thing about her. For Callahan she's the human conundrum at the heart of the world. Lounging naked in a bower, she's the Eve in his Garden. Emerging from water with her eyes shut, her hair dripping and her breasts just visible beneath the surface, she's everything that's inward looking, tantalizing and self-contained...
...only way out of this conundrum is the implementation of a flat tax that would not produce a budget deficit. Yet such a flat tax would require a rate of around 25 percent. Once the various deductions currently allowed are taken into account, such a flat tax would result in higher taxes for the middle class and lower ones for the wealthy. This flat tax would admittedly increase long-run economic growth, but it would also engender even greater economic inequality by undermining the middle class. This would return us to the familiar world of the efficiency-equity trade...
Committee Conundrum...
...really like to help you grab the attention of your aloof proctor. Unfortunately, I'm busy studying for MCAT's right now, so I am afraid I don't have the time to address your conundrum...