Word: dilemma
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only does Talbott allow no doubt about his more negative feeling concerning START, but he also negates much of his harange against U.S. conduct at the INF talks with his very first sentence in Part Two "White INF was largely an inherited dilemma for the Reagan Administration, its conduct of START--the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks--was beset by problems much more of its own making...
...Chicano population on Ivy League campuses faces a dilemma in trying to recruit students from the Southwest to the East Coast where there is no Chicano community and where the Chicano population at most Ivies is very small. Chicano students coming to places like Harvard do so knowing they face cultural isolation. So the dilemma, from the perspective of student recruiters and others working towards increasing Harvard's minority population, centers on the competing and frequently circular goals of attracting students by building Harvard up, while chastising the University with the hope of improving support services...
...heart of the dilemma lies one's conception of the role of ethnic and racial minorities play in the Harvard microcosm of American society. If one's view is that minorities should simply blend into the mainstream student population, suppressing their cultural differences in order to assimilate completely, Harvard is right on track. A student's race, ethnicity or disadvantaged background could be considered in the admissions process knowing fully that, in choosing to matriculate at Harvard, the student would become part and parcel of a substantively homogenous student body...
...hawkish report presented a dilemma for the Administration, which has adopted a more conciliatory rhetorical approach toward the Soviets during the election campaign. Reagan sat on the report for ten months, claiming he had not had time to "study" it. Last week he sent it on to Congress without a formal endorsement...
...make this stretch of Massachusetts Avenue into "Highrise Avenue." Two highrise condominiums have gone up within feet of the Francis Allyn site--in the past two years. The lucrative development potential of the popular neighborhood along with Cambridge's notoriously tight rental market has heightened the commission's dilemma...