Word: dilemma
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Shawmut Bank, writes in recent Class Record Book: "Needless to say, and I suppose, somewhat regretfully. I have become a political conservative (it seems hard to believe that I once voted for George McGovern for President.)" The two men represent two of the many different solutions to the dilemma that faced the Class of '69 as it grew from adolescence to middle age: how to reconcile the concerns that motivated their college protests and the realities they face in the real world...
Eleven-year-old Amy's reasoning follows a different path. She is reluctant to let the man steal the drug because she thinks he might be able to solve his dilemma by negotiating with the druggist. She has trouble understanding the druggist's refusal to provide the drug free of charge, his lack of care and concern. Gilligan argues that this difference of approach reveals that women tend to focus on care and on the relationships in a particular situation rather than on principles of justice or fairness...
...party pros are doubtful that a fourth man could emerge. "It just doesn't work that way," says Timothy Russert, an aide to New York Governor Mario Cuomo. Cuomo illustrates the dilemma. He is perhaps the most prominently mentioned alternative. Yet having endorsed Mondale and helped him mightily to win the New York primary, Cuomo is not about to turncoat. Nor would most of the delegates want to embrace such an untested, unknown prospect. Various other names float about: Party Elder Robert Strauss, Former California Governor Jerry Brown, Massachusetts Senator Ted Kennedy, Arkansas Senator Dale Bumpers, even Chrysler Chairman...
...current situation could not be less propitious, or the dilemma more obvious. It was articulated clearly by a top Administration military scientist, Richard DeLauer, Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering, about six weeks after Reagan's original Star Wars speech. The proposed defensive system, said DeLauer, could be overcome by Soviet offensive weapons unless it was coupled with substantial controls on offensive arms. "With unconstrained proliferation" of Soviet warheads, he added, "no defensive system will work...
Some South African athletes, white and black, have solved the dilemma by competing for other countries. Olympic Hopeful Sydney Maree, for instance, will become a U.S. citizen next week; the Villanova track star married an American 3½ years ago. Budd took a different course. Her father Frank is the grandson of an Englishman, entitling her to British citizenship. As part of a secret deal struck by Frank Budd, Labuschagne and London's Daily Mail, the family was flown to England last month. For a reported $300,000 trust fund and living expenses, the Mail has exclusive rights...