Word: dilemma
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...countries feel this dilemma more acutely than Iran. For many countries in the region an attack on Saddam is a lose-lose scenario, but Iran's stakes are more mixed. Tehran has an economic interest in maintaining the status quo, since the sanctions against Iraqi oil bring investment Iran's way. But Baghdad hosts the Iranian opposition group Mujahedin-e Khalq, which routinely stages raids across the border into Iran. And Iranian reformers would regard a more democratic regime in Iraq as a boost to their own hopes for political change - though the country's hard-line conservative clerics would...
...policyholders to 3.25%, but that still leaves many of the smaller mutuals - which didn't boost their equity game until late in the bull run - in trouble. Now industry groups are pressuring the big boys, like Allianz and Ergo, to bail out their little brethren. It's a global dilemma: State Street Bank analyst Brian Garvey says American insurers have pumped $526 billion into stocks since 1997, "creating the risk of a vicious circle of price declines and forced liquidations." U.K. regulators have a similar fear, and they've responded by lowering the amount of assets insurers need to hold...
...vanished time of simpler Fourths of July, Woodrow Wilson proudly hailed the American flag as "the emblem of our unity." For many Americans on Independence Day in 1970, to unfurl, or not unfurl, the front-porch flag is an unsettling dilemma. What was once an easy, automatic rite of patriotism has become in many cases a considered political act, burdened with overtones and conflicting meanings greater than Old Glory was ever meant to bear. In the tug of war for the nation's will and soul, the flag has somehow become the symbolic rope... Some, mostly the defiant young, blow...
Families everywhere will recognize the dilemma. How can children help and protect their parents yet respect their autonomy? What if the parents resist help when the children think they are in trouble? How do the children know when to step in, when to step back? The answers involve a renegotiation of parent-child roles that's happening in almost every family, especially with today's elders living longer than the generation before them...
...violence will continue to escalate. And that poses a dilemma for the Bush administration. When Israeli troops made their first incursions into the West Bank in April it threatened Washington's relations with key Arab allies in the war on terror. Al-Qaeda is certainly well aware of the connection, which is why its latest al-Jazeera advertorial tries to paint the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as al-Qaeda's very raison d'?tre. In response to pressure from Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Jordan, the Bush administration has agreed to launch a new diplomatic intervention. But there's little reason...