Word: dilemma
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Viet Nam to history and calling for "a great national reconciliation." Earlier his battle against inflation became his battle against recession, though in that case events as well as second opinions helped produce the turnabout. Basically, conflicting demands are being made of the President. "He faces a peculiar dilemma," says a mayor who has met him. "The country wants a human, open, responsive, all-American-fellow President. At the same tune it needs a strong, dynamic leader...
...called the minimum goals the report sets for minorities and women--equal to the percentage of minorities in the U.S. in the former case and parity with men in the latter--a "step forward," but noted that "there is no mention of the dilemma of poor people...
...must choose between two doors, one concealing a ferocious tiger, the other a homely damsel whom the unfortunate victim must marry. Actually, the procedure is more like something out of "Let's Make a Deal" than a medieval court of justice. In any case, the plot centers around the dilemma of Princess Barbara (Colleen McMahon), who falls in love with a soldier and must decide whether to give him to the beast or to another woman. The Snake supplies her with the information with which she can save or kill her lover. In one of the sultrier moments...
Perhaps the major dilemma facing Hanoi is whether to go for a quick, immediate strike at the capital-or whether to proceed step-by-step, which would allow ARVN more time to regroup and rebuild some of its shattered divisions. Actually, Hanoi has a third option: hoping that Saigon will fall without a fight anyway. "We do not want our compatriots to die if we can obtain our objectives by other means," declared Mme. Nguyen Thi Binh, the Provisional Revolutionary Government's Foreign Minister...
...dilemma that Bird underscores in dozens of interviews with students, parents and college administrators is that "the great majority of high school graduates aren't sure what they want to do." Indeed, there is no reason why they should be, or why a college freshman has to sign up for a major that from the day he sets foot on campus narrows his possible options and his choice of careers. Most young people simply have not experienced enough variety in jobs or life-styles to be able to make an intelligent choice about then-adult career when they graduate...