Word: dilemma
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...striking workers were running out of money (the French unions have no strike funds), and the nation as a whole was tired of the inconveniences of living in an immobilized country. Partly, too, it was the response of a nation to a heroic leader. The turnabout illumined the dilemma of the majority in an age of instant communication, when extremists can command publicity that inflates their influence out of all proportion to their numbers. When De Gaulle took his stand, the ordinary middle-class people of France finally had an opportunity to stand up and be counted in the battle...
...present marriage between the U.S. and Thailand," says Thai Foreign Minister Thanat Khoman, "is a marriage of necessity, I think, for both sides." Like most such marriages, it has its strains, and they are beginning to show up with considerable frequency. The Thais face a dilemma: they want and need U.S. help in fighting off Communism in Southeast Asia, fearing that their country may be the next victim; yet they are disturbed by the effects of the American presence in Thailand on their traditional manners and morals...
...dilemma of the Vietnamese in this war today is that when we take the Americans as our friends, we cannot forget that our enemy is our brother," Nguyen Ngoc Bich, Vietnamese scholar and poet, told an audience of about 25 in Lowell Lecture Hall last night...
...face amount of $10,000. This has the effect of raising the return closer to 7%-a cost which homebuilders pass along to buyers disguised as a higher price for their homes. In a time of rising interest rates, when lending institutions demand increasing discounts, Fannie Mae faces a dilemma...
Scarce resources on the one hand and competing claims on the other set the terms of the Mayor's dilemma...