Word: dilemma
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nightmarish existence. While one bemoans the horrors of a past which "turns into everlasting regret if you don't plan for it," another cynically observes the difficulty of averting any such horrors by mere planning. It is the mood of hopelessness, of pervasive melancholy, embodied in this dilemma which is captured and preserved in the Loeb production...
Kankakee can't bail New Yorkers out of their financial dilemma, but it doesn't hurt us to wish them all well...
...Geneva Conference to reconvene in November and to have an "ironclad guarantee" from the U.S. that Moscow will play a key role in any future talks between the Israelis and the Syrians. While any enduring Middle East settlement demands some Soviet participation, Washington may find itself in a dilemma if it enters into an agreement with the Soviets regarding Geneva. Reason: Israel would probably argue that such an agreement violates the recent understandings between Jerusalem and Washington in which the U.S. promised "not to join in efforts by others to bring about consideration of proposals which it and Israel agree...
...predict that it will be abandoned as a tool for desegregating schools. Declares a university president in Massachusetts: "Busing is a cause whose time has passed." There is a danger that opposition to busing will be used as a pretext to fight the principle of desegregation itself. The dilemma for the nation is that busing cannot be abandoned in many cities without pushing back desegregation, because of the large distances separating black and white neighborhoods. That in turn could well lead to what educators term "urban apartheid...
...Answer. Butte's few remaining boosters have not been able to come up with any realistic answer to the city's dilemma. If Anaconda were to abandon its operations in Butte and lay off its 3,000 employees there, the economic impact on the city would be devastating. Searching for a solution, the leaders of twelve Butte companies formed a nonprofit organization to look into the possibility of relocating the threatened business district, and even found three suitable sites on the flatlands south and west of the city. But they have been unable to figure...