Word: dilemma
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Band members work hard for their money. All of the groups practice several times a week and finding rehearsal space can often be a problem. Dunster House has a large basement practice room, but few other houses are similarly equipped. The Rhythm Method has solved the dilemma by practicing twice a week in a rented rehearsal space in Boston, Axelrod says...
Jean's defection confronts Gerard and his friends with a vexing dilemma. Although they fulminate at length against the predatory Crimond, they are bound to him by an old pact. Years earlier, they had formed a committee to subsidize Crimond so that he would be free to write what everyone then thought would be an important book of political philosophy. "We were all Marxists once," Gerard notes, but times and beliefs have changed. Still, their humane, liberal inclinations prevent the companions from going back on their word. As Gerard says, "There's nothing we can do except curse privately that...
After years of research, doctors feel they are ready to try to alleviate many incurable conditions, ranging from congenital heart defects to degenerative nerve diseases, through the transplanting of organs and tissues. Their pioneering triumphs, however, have created a Faustian dilemma. Each year in the U.S. hundreds of infants die who could have been saved by a new heart; literally millions of people with diseases like Parkinson's and Alzheimer's may eventually benefit from tissue implants. Should physicians manipulate the definitions of life and death to meet this growing demand for donor tissue? The question is taking...
...dilemma dramatically illustrates a mounting disaster that threatens all of corporate America. After years of trickling increases, insurance premiums that companies pay for group health plans are suddenly swelling at flash-flood rates. The Health Insurance Association of America, an industry trade group, says commercial health insurers are boosting their premiums about 20% this year, vs. just 4% in 1987. Some group health plans have been hit by price increases as high...
...solve the basic farm dilemma may account for the difference...