Word: dilemma
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Said in an incident in October 1967, the Israelis dared not retaliate directly for fear of hitting Soviet warships near by. Now the Soviets have brought a dredge into the Mediterranean; should they try to use it to pry open the Suez Canal, the Israelis would face an agonizing dilemma...
...members of the panel live in a kind of madness. They argue in the stratefied cliches we have all heard before with the impassioned logic we ourselves have all used before. Although they are the men to whom we have entrusted the solution of our present dilemma, they turn out to be nothing more than four struggling egos. Before us they perform a dance of death, for the riot is beginning in the streets...
...Cushion. Unless some such combination of circumstances brings a sharp improvement in its trade surplus, the U.S. will face a difficult dilemma. Many economists reason that the nation has moved into a new era, in which its industrial efficiency no longer provides a cushion against lower wage rates abroad. Yet if the U.S. substantially reduces the comparatively free access other countries enjoy to the world's largest market, it risks a prosperity-wrecking shrinkage in world trade. If the U.S. cooled its heated domestic economy enough to bring prices in line with those of foreign goods, the resulting unemployment would...
Dunlop and his six associates (a high-powered group of full professors if ever there was one) made 48 Conclusions and Recommendations. Just what to do with that mass of suggestions is a dilemma that has eaten up plenty of administrative energy this fall and is not yet solved. Dean Ford assigned the job to Edward T. Wilcox, director of General Education, Secretary of the Committee on Educational Policy, and all-around administrative handy...
...roots of the dilemma at Harvard go back to the week following the King assassination. A Harvard service at Memorial Chapel attracted 1200 mourners, less than a dozen of them black. Other black students, numbering nearly 100, gathered on the steps of the chapel to hold a rival memorial service. During the course of that informal ceremoney, Jeff Howard, '69, reduced the issue to its basic...