Word: dilemma
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Every U.S. company that does business with the Arab world-and just about every significant corporation does -faces a dilemma. It must comply with Arab laws. But one of those laws is that a business must refuse to deal with companies that in any way aid Israel's economic development. This Arab boycott adds up to a type of discrimination that President Ford has condemned. So what is a company...
...country's new economic troubles pose a dilemma for Machel, who was already facing rising dissent at home over one of the harshest austerity programs ever imposed by an African government on its people. When Mozambique won its independence from Portugal last June, its future looked relatively bright compared with that of Lisbon's other African territories. Unlike Angola, which became engulfed in a civil war among three liberation movements, Mozambique had only one major force fighting for independence - Frelimo (Front for the Liberation of Mozambique). Frelimo leaders made seemingly sincere requests to whites to stay...
Very possibly we are seeing the beginning of some consensus on how to maintain the Postal Service. At least I am struck by the fact that knowledgeable people who may have dissimilar points of view on other matters have lately expressed remarkably similar ideas about the postal dilemma...
...sort of ignorant and acquisitive being who moons after magical tales." Soon she is buffeted by stories heard at a reading by a famous author, pressed on her in manuscript by a young aspirant, conjured out of her own imagination. Ultimately these intertwined fantasies knot themselves into a dilemma: the ghost of a Jewish poet orders her to choose between the "Creator or the creature. God or god. The Name of Names or Apollo." She chooses the Greek divinity and instantly becomes a font of Western literature. "Stories came from me then . . . none of them of my own making...
...experiment, ignored the realities of power in Chile. There were popular slogans and lines from Neruda's poetry painted on the walls, there was a visit from Fidel Castro, there were rallies of hundreds of thousands in the streets. This carnival of revolutionary optimism belied Allende's dilemma: elected by a modest plurality, his Popular Unity government never held parliamentary power during his three years as President. He was unable to pass any major legislative initiatives. Only by zealous enforcement of laws previously enacted by the Christian Democratic government could he achieve the famous land reforms and nationalizations...