Word: dilemma
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hoffmann said it is "fallacious to suppose there can be unconditional negotiations." His suggested answer to the Vietnam dilemma is negotiations based on the assumption that an interim government composed of representation from both sides will be set up, that elections will be held in the South under international supervision, and that all foreign armies will be withdrawn...
...surgeons have thought of three possible replacements for an incurably failing heart: an animal's heart, another human heart, and a completely artificial heart. The animal heart has been used only once, in a case that illuminated both sides of the surgeon's dilemma. At the University of Mississippi Medical Center, Dr. James D. Hardy had, on three occasions, a patient dying of brain injuries who would have been a suitable donor-but he had no recipient. Twice, when he had potential recipients of a transplant, he had no human donors. One candidate to receive a transplant...
...increase in tuition has been made necessary by the relentless upward pressures on our educational costs. The dilemma posed by increased costs is one we share with all the major private universities of the country," Johnson said...
When Norr became HPC president in February he faced a dilemma. The fifth-course pass-fail plan was only a hair further away from adoption than the fourth-course one is now--it had been approved by the CEP and was scheduled for the next Faculty meeting. But Norr still didn't like it and now he had a chance to kill it. The new HPC members agreed with his position and they voted to repudiate their predecessors' proposal
...found little cause for gloom in the dilemma facing the grad schools [Nov. 24]. I felt cheered by the thought that the faculties and facilities of the graduate schools might finally be available to undergraduate students, if only for a few years. While the administrators may be fearful, surely the professors must welcome the opportunity to come out of their stuffy libraries and labs and get in touch with the most challenging and questing generation of undergraduate students we have ever had. It could be a mutually rewarding experience...