Word: dilemma
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dilemma...
Dean Sturges remarked that the Law Schol faces the dilemma of whether to remain in, and be represented by, an organization condoning a policy which Yale opposes. The proposal would not only bar from membership discriminatory schools presently applying, but would also have the retroactive effect of expelling member schools which enforce discrimination...
...been almost impossible for a French government to do anything without the Assembly. On the other hand, the failure of French parties to unite against Communism has made it almost impossible to do anything important with the Assembly. For four years France has found no way out of the dilemma...
...thought about its dilemma on various levels. Some architects in Boston conjured up a design for a circular house (flat surfaces are vulnerable to shock waves), built of concrete, with double-thick windows and stainless steel doors. Washington realtors advertised houses and lots "beyond the radiation zone." Worried people in Atlanta inquired about insurance policies against atomic-bomb damage...
Panic or Apathy. The problem was complex. The job required building and maintaining for an indefinite future a vast, complex organization that would be needed, no one knew when, that might never be needed at all. Uncertainty posed a psychological dilemma. Keeping civilians in a constant state of fear would produce impossible local demands on government, provoke the panic in an emergency which would compound catastrophe. Kept in a state of induced calm-even if that were possible-people would get apathetic...