Word: dilemma
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Book-of-the-Month choice, is on somewhat distant terms with literature, and Breathlessly intimate with today's headlines. Written with manifest good will, the novel unfortunately discriminates against character development in favor of cliches and plot-conditioned responses. But if the people are not quite real, their dilemma...
...world still looks to the United States for leadership, he noted, and "it is our task to provide this confident leadership with faith in our own institution" in order to solve the international dilemma...
...earlier speech, Whiteman explained the Freshman dilemma: "There is halfway stage between the student who leaves high school and the mature scholar." Monro later made clear that Harvard assumes students will go on to graduate school; but the growing similarity of colleges to prep schools did not seem disturb conference participants...
...soar to $500,000 today, do have some problems. How can they get their eggs out of the one big basket, spreading the risk by putting their money into a number of stocks, without paying the 25% federal capital-gains tax? To help investors out of this gilt-edged dilemma, two young Denver bankers, Ranald H. Macdonald, 36, and William M. B. Berger, 35, launched a new mutual fund that permits diversification without selling and paying taxes...
Fabrizio obviously does not know that Clara is mentally deficient, but there is no doubting his or his family's seriousness. Mrs. Johnson's dilemma is simple but terrible. Shall she explain and take her daughter away from disturbing Florence, or shall she give her daughter the chance at a normal woman's life that she will never get back home? In one moving moment she realizes that Clara, "whether she could do long division or not, was a woman...