Word: dilemma
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...narrowness of standard technical education methods have received sharp criticism from sources within the engineering profession itself, including, most recently, a group of articles in the official magazine of the national engineering honor society. In their attempts at solving this dilemma, educators have so far achieved only limited success. Engineering students spurn a normal liberal arts education followed by two years of graduate work because of their notorious haste to enter active practice. Even arrangements to cut this time down, such as that between M.I.T. and sixteen small colleges, can handle only a small number of students because...
...alone are using reason amidst the grotesque dance of death. Total, universal, simultaneous disarmament, to be completed within a definite time, ending armies, navies, and air forces, conscription and the manufacture of conventional and unconventional weapons, is the only disarmament that requires minimum external control. It would solve the dilemma of firepower versus manpower...
Miller was scheduled to give a public lecture on April 7 at Washington on "The Romantic Dilemma in American Nationalism." He still hopes to speak at Gonzaga University in Spokane and the Seattle Harvard Club on his western trip...
Benton, who achieved prominence is the Senate by his running controversy with Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, said that an important factor in politics is publicity. Too often, he claimed, senators will neglect tax measures, tariff problems and the like, because they are not "newsworthy." There is a dilemma he said, "in the fact that what is interesting, what is newsworthy, has no necessary relation to what is important...
This puts the government in a dilemma. If it tries to coerce the peasant to work more faithfully for the kolkhoz, the peasant may slow down his production. And if the government allows him complete freedom, the peasant will almost always work harder on his own plot...