Word: dilemma
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Austrians everywhere felt sorry for Smilja-but having accepted a million refugees from Communism since World War II, they were still in no mood to change Austria's present restrictive policies toward immigrants. Involved in Austria's dilemma is the unsolved international problem of what is a refugee...
...tweed knickerbockers), along with Emperor Maximilian and Mahatma Gandhi. Author Wolfe's version of Trotsky is itself a kind of waxworks figure (the writing sounds as if Ernest Hemingway were trying to parody Gromyko), but the book has the great merit of pointing to Trotsky's moral dilemma: Would he have used power less ruthlessly than Stalin...
Russia now faces the West's old dilemma of trying to keep friendships in balance within the area. For years the Soviet Union has pursued two easily defined aims in the Middle East: 1) the immediate one of ending Western-sponsored defense pacts and neutralizing the area, and so creating what Leninists call a "zone of peace"; 2) the ultimate, but much more ambitious aim, of turning the Middle East into a "zone of socialism." Last summer's sudden overturn of the pro-Western regime of King Feisal and Nuri asSaid in Iraq radically changed Russian aspirations...
...fact some doubt exists among Republicans as well as Democrats whether the idea of a welfare state is completely responsible for Michigan's dilemma. Highly industrialized and dependent on the auto industry, the state was very hard hit by the recession, and unemployment has ranged between twelve and fifteen per cent of the working force. With employment off, tax revenues dropped--the sales tax income went from $323 million to $296 million--but the expenses rose. As communities exhausted their unemployment funds, for example, the state took over...
...YORK, March 5--In a mighty meeting of commercial minds, three blushing Harvardmen met a movie star today. Witnesses to the event included a Life magazine reporter who forgot his notebook, Mrs. Bob Considine, who is the wife of Mr. Hearst's expert on the human dilemma, and a number of press agents...