Word: dilemma
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...little understanding. As my roommate gently put it, "I think the faculty forgets that the college exists solely for us." I don't want the students to become as selfish as the faculty appears to be; that would accomplish nothing. Only compromise can resolve the calendar and Reading Period dilemma, but when one side refuses to moderate its views or simply to scknowledge the other's dissatisfaction, it destroys the feasibility of compromise...
Coming from diametrically opposed viewpoints, these clashing voices illustrate the dilemma facing President-elect Carter as he prepares to carry out his campaign pledge to grant some kind of pardon to young Americans who evaded or abandoned service in the Viet Nam War. So far, these rising emotions are based only on what the pro-and anti-pardon groups think Carter will do. He expects to make his decision this week, but does not plan to reveal it until he takes office...
Average Intelligence. Yet a bizarre legal dilemma remained. Lang could not constitutionally be brought to trial nor could he be confined unless proved to be retarded or mentally ill. Yet should he be freed? State prosecutors maintain that Lang, now 32, is retarded and dangerous, "a ticking time bomb" who ought to be stashed away...
...Sympathetic to the refugee dilemma but under domestic political pressure mostly from the right as he prepared for an election year, Roosevelt did not overrule the State Department decision to bar the ship from America...
...having schoolmates bring him his liquid diet in exchange for help with physics and philosophy assignments, the sloth survived an entire semester without leaving his chair, enduring but a single aggravation, when in mid-November an existential dilemma suddenly snapped him out of his lethargy...