Word: dilemma
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...local peace movement has broken free of this dilemma, and redefined the alternatives as (1) remaining in the arms race and depending on the logic of deterrence, or (2) taking unilateral steps toward disarmament, an approach suggesting a resonance between U.S. gestures and resulting negotiations. Tocsin and the Committees of Correspondence now ask that we take risks for disarmament equal to those we now take with retaliation-threats...
...problem can be attributed to enrollment limits in popular courses and to the fact that two Soc Scis are not offered this year. The existing limits are caused by a shortage of section men and professors willing to teach general education courses, and thus an obvious solution to the dilemma would lie in finding the needed personnel. The University could either raise the enrollment limits, offer all seven soc scis, or else develop new courses, as was done this year with Soc Sci 8. At any rate, tuition-paying students who plan programs of study should be able to follow...
After taking in his first bullfight. Tourist Jack Paar, 42, hastened to a ranch outside Madrid to film his own version of the corrida-with a cow. But once Novillero Paar had made his classic entrance, a wag decided to cow him with a substitute, a real toro-a dilemma on whose horns the comedian had no desire to be impaled. Not realizing that his foe was a specially trained, docile beast, Jumping Jack bolted for the barrera but, unfortunately, he didn't quite clear it. His award: no ears, no tail, no hoofs, two bruised ribs...
Business is slow, unemployment is up from 8% to 11%. Betancourt's dilemma is summed up by AD President Raul Leoni: "A government of authority-or a coalition undermined by weakness...
Ducking a Dilemma. The school construction measure was landlocked in the House Rules Committee. Again Jack Kennedy faced a dismaying dilemma: the Senate version, appropriating nearly twice the money ($1.8 billion) offered by the House, authorized special federal funds to raise teachers' salaries-a mouth-watering campaign plum. The House bill contained nothing for the teachers, but it did have Adam Clayton Powell's familiar monkey wrench: an amendment restricting the construction money to integrated schools. With the promise of a vote, if necessary, from Arkansas' James Trimble, Kennedy's adherents on the Rules Committee...