Word: dilemma
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...machine in the garden, the beautiful conveyance and its disturbing effect, is a central theme of the show and a dilemma of the 20th century. Will the automobile drive us to distraction or delight? This exhibition provides no answers, but it poses some of the most provocative questions of the year...
...Governor Mario Cuomo signed a bill ordering industries that burn coal in the state to cut sulfur dioxide emissions 30% by 1991. The Business Council of New York State opposed the law, claiming it would raise rate payers' electric bills while not solving the acid-rain problem. The dilemma is that the pollution knows no boundaries. Indeed, environmentalists say that New York produces less than a third of its own acid rain. Cuomo and his legislature hope their move will inspire other states and the Federal Government to adopt similar laws...
Gymnast Mary Lou Retton faced a similar dilemma last June when she injured her right knee during an exhibition. "I thought, 'Oh my God, it's all over for me,' " she remembers. According to her doctor, Orthopedist Richard Caspari of Richmond, a fragment of cartilage from her knee joint had broken off and lodged in the joint, locking the knee...
Charles Krauthammer's 'The Moral Equivalent of. . ." [ESSAY, July 9] is timely, vital and on target. It shows that part of our modern dilemma is that we have lost the ability to distinguish what is morally right...
...cache of more than 300 love letters. She spends a day reading them, vicariously participating in a passion that her own fashionable life holds at bay. In Terminal, a woman with cancer begs her husband not to interfere if she decides to commit suicide. But an agonizing dilemma then arises: How should he love her-by letting her die, or by refusing to abet their separation...