Word: dilemma
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...somehow the preconvention period has turned into a time of pressure and worry in the Mondale camp. There is pressure from feminists to choose a woman as his vice-presidential candidate, which threatens to put him in a damned-if-he-does-and-damned-if-he-doesn't dilemma. And there is tension over the still uncertain prospects of striking a deal with Jesse Jackson that would avoid both a disruptive convention battle and any appearance that Mondale had surrendered principle for the sake of party peace...
...debate, the party will have to appeal to the middle class, particularly the so-called Yuppies, the baby-boom generation. This requires a more hardheaded approach to economic problems, which in turn risks alienating the party's traditional supporters. "Defining the role of Government is the central philosophical dilemma Democrats have to confront," says Tennessee Congressman Albert Gore...
Costa Rica's dilemma is partly of its own making. Its pacific tradition has long made it a haven for exiles of all political stripes: it now houses some 16,000 refugees from El Salvador, 10,000 of them un registered. It is home to 3,500 exiles from the Sandinista regime, though just five years ago it allowed free rein to Sandinista rebels fighting to bring down Nicaraguan Dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle...
Strouse defines this central conflict as the struggle between self-knowledge and innocence, and all the James children shared that pressure. But Alice had a second more immediate dilemma of her own. She realized that, on the one hand, she was too gifted and too willful to rival her mother and aunt in the domestic arena. She never had a serious suitor or any prospect of a household of her own On the other hand, she was equally unwilling to challenge her brothers on a broader scale. The combination of these pressures proved too much for her. Although he identifies...
...economists, it is a phenomenon outside the realm of all historical experience. To American workers and businessmen, it is a malignant force that destroys jobs and profits. To Government policymakers, it is a vexing dilemma that stirs impassioned pleas for protectionism. Gargantuan and still growing, the U.S. trade deficit has raised grave fears about the future health and wealth of the American economy...