Word: dilemma
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from the beginning Deng's revolution has faced the dilemma of combining economic and political liberalization. Could China free its economy without loosening the political system and allowing more democracy? During the past month that issue has been taken into the streets. Thousands of students around the country demonstrated for more political freedom, often burning Communist Party papers and denouncing party leaders...
...proud they came back. So what if there was some bad in us? That's the price you pay. Chris pays a big price. He becomes a murderer." A good man, and a murderer? It is a tribute to Platoon's cunning that it can sell this dilemma both ways, and a mark of Stone's complexity that he can argue either side and believe both...
...California law by a 6-to-3 vote, ruling that a state is permitted to require an employer to provide special job protection for workers temporarily disabled by pregnancy. Realistic in its scope and modest in its rhetoric, the decision could have enormous impact on the growing social dilemma caused by the influx of women into the job market over the past 25 years: the heavy burden of holding down a job and having children at the same time. "It's a wonderful victory," said Feminist Betty Friedan, who lost her first job when she became pregnant. "It says that...
...sympathetic to us will show their goodwill toward the Americans." That sounded like Rafsanjani-style pragmatism at work. On the other hand, it clashed directly with the hard-liners' refusal to grant concessions in order to regain the funds. Meanwhile, the U.S. is caught up in its own dilemma: while Washington is ready to release the money, it apparently does not want to yield one of its few remaining aces to the Iranians without at the same time assuring the return of the hostages...
...100th Congress begins a new year of work, it immediately faces an economic dilemma that is agonizingly old: what to do about the monstrous and dangerous U.S. deficit. Despite all efforts in years past to control it, the gap between federal spending and revenues grew to a record $221 billion in fiscal 1986. This week, as President Reagan sends Congress his 1988 budget, the annual battle over the deficit gets under way. Behind the barrage of statistics and beyond the parade of partisan interest groups fighting for bigger shares of the federal pie, the issue at stake is, quite simply...