Word: dilemma
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Spurring the trend, which is largely confined to white professionals, is the fabled man crunch: single women over 35 far outnumber single men their age. According to Government statistics, nearly 40% of brides ages 35 to 44 resolve this demographic dilemma by marrying younger men. While the age difference is usually just a few years, the gap appears to be widening. In 1970 only 3.7% of brides were five years or more older than their mates; now that figure has reached...
...there are earlier, subtler pleasures: the understated idealizing of the Gallaghers' homelife, the funny- horny touches in the sex scene. Douglas and Close are nicely cast, attractive opposites. His all-American-boy bafflement suggests a Gary Cooper stripped of moral authority and ill at ease in a grown-up dilemma. Her intimidating energy recalls the young Katharine Hepburn but with a voracious libido. And behind them both stands another more portly silhouette: the ghost of Alfred Hitchcock. Dan is the basic Hitchcock protagonist, a fairly decent man in a horribly compromised position. And at first glance, Alex, with her cool...
...that Elizabeth Dole agonized long and publicly before stepping down as Secretary of Transportation last month to help her husband, Senate Minority Leader Robert Dole, in his bid for the presidency. Her quandary struck a resonant chord in men and women across the nation who increasingly confront the same dilemma: when both spouses enjoy satisfying careers, which one takes precedence...
Monday's frightening plunge in stock prices posed an immediate dilemma for the candidates: what to say and when to say it. Most Democrats erred on the side of caution, preferring not to be seen as gloating over the partisan advantage to be reaped from the economy's distress. The economic crisis seemed a tonic to Michael Dukakis; he projected a confidence rarely seen in the weeks since his campaign was rocked by disclosure of its role in leaking a tape that helped sabotage the candidacy of Joseph Biden. Dukakis' public words were a careful mixture of reassurance and assault...
...officials pondered their dilemma, the battered Sea Isle City lay off the Kuwaiti coast. The missile blast gouged a jagged hole in the starboard side of the empty tanker and left the wheelhouse blood-splattered and strewn with debris. American Captain John Hunt was blinded by flying glass and is recovering in a Kuwaiti hospital after surgery. Several other victims of the attack are hospitalized, but all are expected to survive...