Word: dilemma
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...three panelists agreed that the only way tofind a solution to this dilemma is, as Schlesingersaid, "to put your faith in the system to find away." However, Miller predicted that, as nationalsecurity interests grow, the CIA will violatepeople's civil rights more, by methods such aswiretapping...
...Nancy Jobes' predicament, a hopeless twilight known to doctors as a "permanent vegetative state." For their families, they are a constant source of anguish, and there is a tremendous financial burden (as much as $100,000 a year, usually paid by insurance). These patients pose a knotty ethical dilemma for doctors as well --a conflict between the duty to sustain life and the obligation to relieve suffering. With few professional guidelines to help them resolve the conflict, doctors have frequently decided to continue treatment because of their moral qualms or fear of legal consequences...
Developing countries see drug abuse as America's dilemma, not theirs. Says Bolivian Interior Minister Fernando Barthelemy: "It is unfair to put most of the weight on the coca-producing countries when it is a simple law of demand. American and Western European consumers keep doping more and more. Consequently more coca is planted." For that reason, U.S. corporations that try to stem the demand for drugs are getting right to the heart of the problem...
...been favored to win the May 4 election. Documents and photographs, apparently leaked by opponents, provided compelling evidence that Waldheim was a member of two Nazi organizations and served in a German army command responsible for the deportation of Greek Jews to death camps. Waldheim, 67, compounded his dilemma with a vague and unconvincing rebuttal. By week's end Waldheim had done irreparable damage to the reputation for cool diplomacy that he earned as head of the U.N. between...
...revealed last week that he had helped organize the reformists. He said his defection from the government was "an act of contrition for what I did during martial law," which Marcos had imposed between 1972 and 1981. Defending his dramatic action, Enrile explained, "I was affected by a moral dilemma: my loyalty to a man, and my loyalty to my country. I chose to serve my country." He added, "If I had had vision, I would have left the government long...