Word: dilemma
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...concluded that 1) Nixon could not travel to Washington until at least Feb. 16, 2) he could not testify in a courtroom setting in California until Feb. 2, 3) he could not risk even the strain of giving a deposition in his home until Jan. 6. That posed a dilemma for Sirica, who is trying to wind up the trial by Christmas. Sirica could delay the trial's conclusion until after a deposition was taken. If this is done, the doctors recommended, questioning of the former President should be restricted to two one-hour sessions a day under close...
Instead of attacking problems of "presidential power, spying, wiretapping, and jury-tampering" which he said had originally inspired the laws, Gorman said the laws merely made the question of how to get the money to run for office at all the "biggest dilemma...
...interesting by giving it a controversial, perhaps scandalous, content. The article describes Greek students by classifying them in two extreme contradictory categories: future revolutionaries or future cadres of imperialism. It says they form "the most political student group in Cambridge," "they are generally rich" and are occupied by the dilemma whether "Greece should ally with Russia...
Agonizing Dilemma. Deliberately or not, the summit leaders had detonated the biggest political explosive yet in what U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger has often called "the minefield" of the Middle East?the Palestinian problem. Besides humiliating Hussein by rejecting Jordan's somewhat tenuous historical claims to sovereignty over the West Bank, the Arab endorsement of the P.L.O. placed Israel in an agonizing dilemma. The Israelis have steadfastly insisted that any future settlement involving the West Bank must involve Jordan; they have refused even to consider discussions with what Premier Yitzhak Rabin has described as "terrorist organizations whose avowed...
This deteriorating situation poses a dilemma for the wealthy, food-surfeited citizen of the developed world. He must decide whether he has a moral obligation to feed those who are starving even if the food shortage in the poorest countries could have been prevented by population control. Morals aside, out of sheer self-interest he must ponder whether the hungry half-billion will allow him to live peacefully, enjoying his wealth. He must realize that there is the chance that the impoverished might resort to war to take his wealth and food. Economist Robert Heilbroner notes that even hungry, poor...