Word: dilemma
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Theoretically, the help of some 80 of the Socialists would give Premier Laniel a majority in the National Assembly for ratification of EDC. But perversely, the debate would bring down his Cabinet, which contains no Socialists but does have several Gaullist ministers, all strongly opposed to EDC. The dilemma: without the Socialists, who oppose his domestic policies, Laniel cannot get ratification of EDC; without the Gaullists, who oppose EDC, he cannot govern France...
...President ought not to subject a new appointee to the dilemma of having either to do this or to force a long postponement of important public business. He can resolve the dilemma by calling the Senate into special session to act upon the nomination. Henry M. Hart, Jr. '26 Professor...
...past 18 years, but has never failed to raise it whenever the Government needed more money (see chart). Economy-minded Senators, well aware that in the same 18 years the ceiling has been lowered only once (at World War II's end), thought that Humphrey's dilemma would make for quicker, bigger cuts in spending. But they also knew, as did Secretary Humphrey, that the ceiling, as a symbol, meant little, that the important thing was the long-range determination of the Administration to reduce the debt itself...
Hard Politics. The hard, cold fiscal facts were impressive-but so were the hard, cold political facts. Congressional Republicans were inclined to agree with New York's Representative Frederic Coudert that the Administration had put Congress in "a cruel and bitter dilemma." The party that for 20 years had fought a mounting federal debt was in the position of asking for an increase in a statutory debt limit that had stood for seven years...
...This is the essence of the dilemma under the Fifth Amendment. Outside of a few people, often represented by attorneys following the communist line, I suggest that practically all of the people who pleaded the Fifth Amendment were willing to tell everything they knew about the communist membership except that they had an understandable reluctance to tell on those people who had gotten out of the movement and were leading unmolested, decent, pro-democracy lives. We have taught our children not to be tattle-tales, but now we are putting on a public parade of witness to testify against their...