Word: dilemma
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...moral dilemma of abortion divides the American people, just as their elected representatives are divided (the vote in the House last week was 181 to 167). According to a TIME Yankelovich poll, 64% of the public believe that a woman should be free to have an abortion if she wants one. But 58% agree with Jimmy Carter ("Life is unfair") that public funds should not be used for abortions, except in cases of rape, incest or where a woman's life is in danger...
...fosters, are arriving. The populations of Washington, Oregon and Idaho have increased 15% during the past ten years (Florida rose 45%) and are expected to grow another 13% by 1985. More people mean a need for more jobs. Washington Congressman Mike McCormack sums up the development-v.-conservation dilemma: "One man's conservation is all too frequently another man's unemployment...
Sadat seemed unaffected by the steady tirade of abuse directed against him by radical Arabs. Still, he was in the dilemma of a host who had called a party to which most of the essential guests would not come. Israel immediately accepted the invitation to the Cairo conference.* Syria, the P.L.O. and Lebanon, almost as immediately, said no, and the Soviets soon after responded in kind. Playing it close to the vest, Jordan's King Hussein said that he would go to Cairo if all other invited parties went; he added that he would go to Tripoli if every...
...will not help the Eskimos. The quota is too low to meet the needs of the Eskimos, who have relied heavily on the whale for food. The Eskimos are finding it increasingly difficult to live apart from the rest of the world. Dr. Robert Coles, who has studied the dilemma, said the Eskimos are protesting the abolition of whale hunting because it is one of "the last gasps of their culture." Coles noted that the Eskimos are becoming more dependent on the federal government and the village store for their survival. And some are moving to the cities where...
...searching for a way to solve the dilemma, the IWC and the U.S. have adopted a strategy that has the disadvantages of both possibilities and the advantages of neither. By tossing the Eskimos a few crumbs (whales), the IWC insults their dignity and fails to halt the decline of their culture. And given the likelihood that the Eskimos will kill more than 12 whales anyway, the compromise will contribute to the extinction of the bowhead. Though the drawbacks of a total ban on bowhead whaling should not be glossed over, it is the best solution...