Word: dilemma
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most obvious solution to this dilemma is to increase the number of Core course offerings--a proposition that has received the support of Dean Michael A. Spence but seen little actual progress within the Core program...
...space exploration remains firm. In a poll taken for TIME by Yankelovich Clancy Shulman, most respondents agree that it is important for the U.S. to be the world's leading space-faring nation, and more than half fear that the U.S. has slipped behind the Soviets. Washington's dilemma has been how to maintain pre-eminence in space without exacerbating record budget deficits. Reagan's answer surprised no one: privatize wherever possible. True, his plan reasserted NASA's central role in manned space flight. It called for $1 billion in funding next year for the agency's ambitious, $30 billion...
...settlers, the uprising in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip is a test of their will to survive and rule. Yet the very presence of the settlers symbolizes a basic national dilemma. For years this small but fervent group -- representing only 2% of the country's total Jewish population -- has exercised an outsize influence on Israeli politics. Even many Israelis who question the settlers' tactics agree with them that the barren hilltops of ancient Judea and Samaria belong to Israel and should be kept forever...
...Israelis themselves who must come to terms with what the settlers represent: an insistence on keeping every inch of the land that 1.4 million Palestinians also claim. Until the nation as a whole faces that dilemma, the turmoil is likely...
...plot sounds vaguely like a dilemma from an episode of Webster or Punky Brewster. But as silly as this musical may seem, the underlying message is well worth repeating in out increasingly status-conscious society...