Word: dilemma
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Looking out the window of his office, Jewett's eyes must linger on the shanties built by anti-apartheid activists to protest the University's investments in companies that do business in South Africa. Jewett has handled the shanty dilemma with a certain moderation. But the shanties were built on more than the South Africa issue. Shanty dwellers have dubbed their ragged settlement the Open University. Jewett probably has made many students feel like they live in a more open university, but it's as if a door that was once shut has been opened only a few inches...
...time, first suggested by Benjamin Franklin in 1784 as a means of cutting down on candle consumption, is a proven conservator of another of Franklin's tinkering projects, namely electricity. But the system also forces some early risers in the springtime to start their day in the dark. The dilemma: When best to make the twice-yearly time change...
...according to federal authorities, he started selling information to the Soviets. Accused spies like Pelton have been a cause of growing concern to the U.S. intelligence community. Lately, however, they have begun raising problems for the press as well. In covering spy cases, the media face a delicate dilemma: How much can they report about the secrets involved without further harming U.S. security? Two news organizations grappled with that question last week under the hostile gaze of CIA Director William Casey...
Justice Department officials privately doubt that a news organization can be successfully prosecuted under Section 798. But the mere prospect of Government action could serve the same purpose. "We don't want to police the press," says a CIA spokesman. "We want the press to police itself." The dilemma is that unless a news organization is willing to risk criminal prosecution, it must rely on the CIA to tell it whether a story poses a threat to national security. As the sometime subject of such stories, the CIA may not always be the most objective judge...
...American society is changing," says Historian Fehrenbach. "Texans are beginning to earn a living more in the fashion of other Americans." The state must diversify its economy even more than it already has. Texas may ultimately be redeemed by the kind of people it has always attracted. The dilemma, in part, is how to preserve the old atmosphere of entrepreneurial daring and adventure, while spending the money needed to educate the young for a new world in a new century. The Texan's instinct prefers action to thought, which may explain why the state ranks 46th in the nation...