Word: dilemma
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mubarak has therefore inched cautiously toward reform. Gasoline prices have been raised twice in the past year. Electricity rates were hiked an average of 35% a year ago, and taxes on luxury imports have been imposed. Such steps are not nearly enough. Mubarak's dilemma is that sterner measures, which might save Egypt from the embarrassment of defaulting on its foreign loans, could provoke a popular uprising that the fundamentalists are poised to exploit...
...will choose perhaps 30% of the delegates to the national conventions. (So is Jackson, who may reap the South's black Democrats the way Robertson may reap its religious-right Republicans.) At a minimum, Robertson could present the eventual Republican nominee with the same kind of dilemma that Jackson posed for Walter Mondale in 1984: how to capitalize at the polls on the fervor of his legions without frightening away even larger numbers of more moderate voters...
Jackson promises to redouble that dilemma for the Democratic banner carrier in 1988. In speeches and interviews, he pours scorn on anyone who will move the party to the center. His particular target these days is the Democratic Leadership Council, a group of moderate elected officials mostly from the South and West. Jackson sneers that its initials, D.L.C., stand for Democrats for the Leisure Class. It is composed, he says, of "Democrats who comb their hair to the left like Kennedy and move their policies to the right like Reagan...
...resolve his administrative dilemma over divestment. In the hot quiet summer and in the wake of the U.C. divestment Bok can quietly do the same. He should do it because it's the right thing to do and he can do it without endangering his carefully nurtured administrative control of the University...
...Mona is a person or a symbol. The fact that we learn nearly nothing about her personal history and that she rarely speaks or thinks would indicate that she is a metaphor, not an individual. But occasionally, Varda strays from her reservedly elegant direction and portrays Mona in human-dilemma situations. These are often very moving in themselves. For example, just as Mona begins to develop a believable emotional relationship with a man, his friends return and make her leave...