Word: dilemma
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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City officials have met repeatedly with the state Department of Environmental Quality Engineering and the federal Environmental Protection Agency to resolve the dilemma, and the city contends it can still grant exemptions...
...irony of the House's dilemma was reflected when Rep. Vic Fazio (D-Calif.), a pay raise defender, introduced the resolution to reject the increase--but voted against the resolution...
...when Levine discusses in his epilogue the modern dilemma of stratified culture that he appears least historical and seems to be writing off-the-cuff. (Although a majority of the work was delivered by Levine at Harvard in his 1986 Massey Lectures in the History of American Civilization, the rest of Highbrow/Lowbrow nonetheless adheres to a bookish, historical style.) In the epilogue, which includes the umpteenth rebuttal to the moral philosopher Allan Bloom, Levine effectively calls for an appreciation of all cultures...
...soldiers, the moral dilemma only deepened as the determined government of Shamir ordered yet another military crackdown. "We will increase the punishment so there is a higher price to pay for throwing stones," explained army Chief of Staff Dan Shomron. A new kind of ammunition has been introduced: a round, rubber-clad metal ball advertised as nonlethal but responsible for nearly half a dozen deaths so far this month. Soldiers are permitted to fire supposedly less lethal plastic bullets more readily, including at the backs of fleeing protesters. Stone throwers can be jailed for five years, their parents fined...
WORLD: Israel's soldiers confront a moral dilemma...