Word: dilemma
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Anybody who has been recently and properly vaccinated, by a doctor who checked the injection site to make sure the shot "took," is most unlikely to get smallpox. But when smallpox erupts where many people have never been vaccinated, or were vaccinated too long ago, doctors face a dilemma. A crash program of vaccination and revaccination may help, but nearly always there are victims already infected for whom this is too late. Gamma globulin has reduced the severity of many cases, but the stuff is scarce, costly, and seldom available where it is needed...
Aristotle Had a Point. Maimonides' solution to the dilemma was to argue that the conflict between Aristotle and the Bible did not really exist, since there was no inconsistency between the truths discerned by reason and those taught by religion. In large part, he accepted the validity of Aristotle's metaphysics, and tried to show that most of its apparent opposition to Scripture arose from failure to see that certain parts of the Bible should be interpreted as "parables" rather than as literal truth. He argued that there was no incompatibility between the personal God of Judaism...
...enforce the law of the land-against Buddhist defiance. But it was brutal, nonetheless, and it aroused a strong new wave of sympathy for the Buddhists. It also put U.S. policy in South Viet Nam, which involves the lives and safety of 14,000 U.S. troops, into an agonizing dilemma. While often unhappy with Diem, the U.S. has proceeded on the assumption that it was safer to stick with him than risk the chaos that might surround a switch to a new, unknown and unpredictable regime. But by his move against the Buddhist monks, who have the growing support...
Another Step. Rusk led off. Some people, he said quietly, might wonder why three successive U.S. Administrations have exerted so much effort trying to reach a nuclear test ban agreement, even while accumulating stockpiles of nuclear weapons. "The answer," said Rusk, "lies at the heart of the dilemma which troubles our world. The values that are the heritage of a free society have been menaced by a Communist bloc armed with the most modern weapons and intent on world domination...
...former Cambridge Don John Barton, 34. Like even the most dedicated Shakespeareans, they were convinced that the old three-part Henry VI was too verbose, incoherent and confused to be staged effectively. At the same time, they saw in it an important unifying theme-what Director Hall calls "the dilemma of power: Can a man be 'good' and politic? Do you have to be a bad man to be a good king?" The final answer to that question is supplied by Richard III, the "crookback" who murders gentle Henry VI but dies ignominiously at last at the hands...