Word: dilemma
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...summer job dilemma, like everything else, can be broken down into three basic parts. These are: if, what, and where. First, you have to decide if you are going to work at all this summer. After all, it's the only time of year you can lay a proper base tan. And it may be the last chance you'll have to mooch completely off your parents...
...book is a self-contained progression in time: the first story, A Diary of Old New York, occurs in 1875, and the last, The Takeover, sometime in the 1980s, perhaps yesterday. The pieces are connected not just chronologically and geographically but by a common concern as well: the dilemma faced by comfortable people when they must choose between honor and expediency...
...TAKE a look at a typical sexological dilemma. Gary X (not his real name) is a successful politician with high visibility and excellent connections within one of the major United States political parties--let's say, for example, the Democratic party. Gary feels, not without justification, that he has worked long and hard for many years, and in return should be able to have sex frequently with many members of the opposite...
...controversy underscored the growing dilemma of waste disposal in the U.S. In Islip and hundreds of other towns across the country, landfills teeming with accumulated trash are leaching their wastes deep into the ground, threatening to contaminate underground water supplies. Big cities such as New York, Detroit, Miami and Chicago have begun burning part of their garbage, thus saving the water but running the risk of polluting...
...deeply troubled with moral dilemma...should men who let their beards get if their soup be put to death? Are we taking manners too seriously--putting our civilization above humanity? Perhaps a strong reprimand and a stiff fine will do...but how can we be sure he won't do it again...