Word: dilemma
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...could write the script, I could devise a way out of the dilemma. We don't feel any urgency about the normalization of relations with the People's Republic, although it is one of my goals. But in the process we certainly are interested in the peaceful lives of those who live on Taiwan, and we hope that those two goals are not incompatible...
...forbidding abortion were a kind of Volstead Act, so widely (and often dangerously) violated as to be worse than useless. The court was therefore wise to send the question back to the privacy of individual consciences. The many who believe abortion morally wrong should honor their convictions. But the dilemma is too difficult to permit antiabortionists to impose their beliefs, no matter how deeply held, upon people who disagree...
Sociobiology tries to resolve the dilemma. Its solution: altruism is actually genetic selfishness. The bird that warns of an approaching hawk is protecting nearby relatives that have many of the same genes it has?thus increasing the chance that some of those genes will survive. Sterile female insects work and give their lives to promote the spread of genes they share with their sisters...
...novelist keeps Hannah's dilemma in the foreground without ignoring its effect on those around her. Gestures like Hannah's shake the pillars of society; friends and loved ones are forced to reassess her life and theirs. Especially torn is Hannah's husband, who is treated as anything but the ogre who pops up in much current feminist fiction. A well-meaning man who has be come the "bill-paying machine" everyone expected him to be, Henry Jackson first tries to bully and then to cajole Hannah into the operating room. He argues sensibly that...
Despite their dilemma, farmers typically are skeptical of federal aid. Says one: "You gotta be bankrupt before they'll give you anything. That disaster aid is a joke, and isn't sufficient to pay for the fertilizer." Nor are farmers looking to fellow Southerner Jimmy Carter to bail them out. "Jimmy's not the type who'd show favoritism," says Jim Warbinton on his spread outside Vienna. "Just because he's from this area, he's not going to roll the money...