Word: dilemma
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...farmers. In the following pages, TIME's Hugh Sidey looks at the ravaged Southeast and the surfeit in his native Midwest; a moving letter from a North Carolina farmwife reveals the personal anguish of a lifetime of work that ends in bankruptcy; and a worldwide assessment of the farm dilemma shows why it is proving so intractable...
...member banks a half-point, to 5 1/2%, its lowest level in nine years. That should encourage further interest-rate cuts by the banks. The Reagan Administration and many private economists still expect a second-half pickup. Right now, though, the slowdown has presented policymakers with a painful dilemma. According to the latest Government forecasts, the federal deficit will total $163.4 billion during the fiscal year that begins this October, about $20 billion above the target set by the Gramm-Rudman law. But some economists fear that new cuts of even $10 billion in Government spending could be enough...
...responsibilities in southern Lebanon with Amal, on condition that the Shi'ites guarantee the safety of the northern Israeli settlements. Scoffs Daoud Daoud, the independent-minded Amal military chief in the south: "A nation protects its security from inside its own borders, not from inside someone else's." The dilemma of the moderate Shi'ites is stark: Israel will not trust them, and radicals in their ranks will reject any sort of cooperative effort with Israel when their fragile is threatened. After last week's clash with the French U.N. troops, both sides issued statements calling the fighting a "regrettable...
...always through intimate sexual relations or the sharing of hypodermic needles, many workers have strong objections to working in close quarters with carriers of the disease. Says Dana Ferrell, a director of the South Florida Health Action Coalition: "There's still a tremendous amount of ignorance out there." The dilemma, says Kenneth Labowitz, a Washington lawyer who represents many stricken employees, is that "a person who has AIDS has the worst medical stigma of the decade. One anchor in the crisis is family, and the other is his job. The victim needs support from both...
...first day, the seven leaders listened attentively to reports by Howe and the Eminent Persons Group, a body headed by former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser and General Olusegun Obasanjo, the former Nigerian head of state, which was appointed by the Commonwealth last year to study the South African dilemma. Most of the leaders present were struck by the degree to which Howe agreed with the group. Kaunda, who had publicly criticized Howe during his African mission, praised the Foreign Secretary's remarks as "simply fantastic...