Word: dilemma
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...major rice supplier. Shortages have boosted rice prices 100% in the past six months, and so much of the Indonesian economy is tied up in Sukarno's military harassment of Malaysia that almost no cash is available to buy rice on the world market. Sukarno's dilemma is that a retreat from the anti-Malaysia campaign would only focus his people's attention on their bleak plight and encourage Indonesia's Communist Party, which is presently excluded from his government, to become more politically active...
Everybody Planning. All the fertilizer in the world will not solve the fundamental dilemma of Soviet agriculture: the nature of the peasant. No incentives yet devised have ever persuaded him to devote to impersonal toil a scintilla of the love and labor he lavishes on the minute patch of land he can still call his own. From privately owned plots, amounting to a bare 3% of all cultivated land in Russia, comes half of all the nation's meat, milk, green vegetables. But the bureaucracy adamantly refuses to expand the private plots...
...million-pupil school system was threatened early this week with a massive Negro boycott in protest against de facto segregated schools. Whether or not the boycott made its point, the nation's biggest school system seemed deeper than ever in the North's most difficult dilemma...
...rhetoric at a breath-taking pace--yet somehow a consistency works its way out of the cross-fire of symbolism and suggesion. The situation, the action, and above all the language conspire to assure the audience that the play does indeed have ulterior meaning however obscure. Hamm's awful dilemma seems to arise partly from his grotesque alienation from nature ("show me the sea!" he asks over and over) and partly from his urge to interpret anything--or everything--in the metaphor of theater. "We are getting on, we are getting on," he tells the audience at intervals...
...tobacco business faces a dilemma that no huge industry has ever before confronted. The cigarette, its prime product, is increasingly under fire as a peril to life and health; yet it continues to enjoy a king-sized market. While many of the nation's 70 million smokers may be trying to quit, the tobacco industry has no intention of doing so. After the Surgeon General's report, the cigarette makers last week withdrew behind a smokescreen of secrecy and agonized over the next line of defense...