Word: dilemma
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...terrible as these numbers are, they're bound to get worse. While some of the talk in Durban focused on modest advances in AIDS treatment--and on South African President Thabo Mbeki's flirtation with discredited ideas about what causes AIDS--the central dilemma of the conference was how to fight this voracious plague under the conditions that made the continent so vulnerable in the first place...
...from one of the tallest buildings in Brussels in a determined effort to meet her maker - only to be foiled by the roof of a Volvo. The car somehow cushioned the blow and the woman survived with barely a scratch. The owner of the Volvo now has a real dilemma: The car was only five days old and he can't decide whether to try and get some reimbursement for the car. "I wouldn't want to burden this woman, but it was my car and she wasn't insured." Only in Belgium...
...business, I'm finally at the point that I'm making some profit. But guess what? I have to go and get a loan to pay my taxes. Maybe I should have done more advance planning, but still, there has to be something that helps small businesses with this dilemma...
Priceline must now make its reverse-auction process work with items like gasoline, packaged groceries and credit cards. Such products are worth just as much tomorrow as they are today, giving suppliers little incentive to dump inventory by partnering with Priceline. "The Priceline dilemma, if they can't secure partnerships, becomes one of increasing costs to them and decreasing benefits to their consumer," says Sam Peltzman of the Graduate School of Business at the University of Chicago...
...Montenegro's pro-Western leadership now faces an acute dilemma that could have global consequences: It either backs away from its path of confrontation with Belgrade, or presses forward for full independence. Milosevic has called the bluff of Montenegro's President Milo Djukanovic, who has been moving steadily in the direction of seceding. Belgrade has now signaled clearly that it's willing to risk violent confrontation to keep its last non-Serb republic. The situation is fraught: Montenegro provides Yugoslavia's only access to the sea; in addition, some 30 percent of Montenegro's population remain loyal to Milosevic...