Word: dilemma
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...What a dilemma for Al Gore. He should be well ahead of George W. Bush by now. He should be on cruise control, barreling down the interstate toward an electoral inevitability. He should have won all three debates by knockout or unanimous decision, exercising his famous command of fact and argument. He should be the unarguable favorite in this race--the Expected One. Instead...
...dilemma on which Gore chews--over which, I suspect, he gnashes his teeth--is this: whether to go to the Oval Office and say, "Mr. President, I need help. Unless you come out and start campaigning for me--now!--I am going to lose this election. And if I lose, there goes the vindication of the Clinton years. There goes the legacy...
Dealing with the disturbances requires of our soldiers great professionalism and constant weighing of personal values. On the surface it looks like the confrontation between the soldier with his weaponry and the Palestinian youth who is throwing stones is in favor of the army. The dilemma for the soldier is between the orders he received, whose main principles are restraint and humanity, and the feeling of fear as a result of the thousands of rioters who are throwing stones and Molotov cocktails at him. All the while the soldier must keep his cool and see before him his values...
...return the relic back while the British bad guys that stole "China's history" spend the rest of the movie in hot pursuit of him gangster style. These intense conflicts are punctuated by moments of melodrama and "emotional climaxes" when the story develops ever so slightly to include the dilemma of bringing honor to his father's family and the nationalistic significance of Chinese culture...
...would look at the morally fascinating Nader Temptation - the dilemma of those who must decide whether to preserve their indignant purity by voting for Ralph Nader, thereby helping to elect George Bush, or whether to go with the imperfect but serviceable vehicle of their principles, Al Gore. A classic bind, with psychological roots in the Glorious Lost Cause mentality - virtue going down in flames, uncompromised...