Word: dilemma
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...there's a dilemma: policymakers want to foster cost-saving competition without killing the financial incentives that have put the U.S. biotechnology industry at the vanguard of medical science and without stifling the development of even more drugs that could save lives and eliminate suffering. Finding that equilibrium goes to the question of how long biotech firms should be guaranteed exclusivity, outside the protection of their patents, before copycats can begin using the data they have developed...
...already committed to the fight would still run a high risk of failure, while that risk would be lowest if the White House dispatched a further 60,000 to 80,000 troops. The reinforcement number talked about in many of the press reports on Obama's dilemma - a little upward of 40,000 new troops - represents McChrystal's medium risk scenario. (Watch a video about the soldier's experience in Afghanistan...
...conservationists' dilemma echoes that of many climate scientists. Do they push for the strict carbon-emissions reductions that many studies say are necessary to prevent serious global warming or do they accept weaker but more politically realistic targets? Whether it's conservation or climate change, science must often give way to statecraft...
...huddled with his inner circle, debating what to do next in Afghanistan. "We went in, but how to get out - our head[s] are splitting from this. Of course we can just pull out fast, without thinking of anything and blame the former leadership who started all this." The dilemma may sound familiar as the Obama Administration weighs General Stanley McChrystal's request for 40,000 more troops, but the quote comes from Mikhail Gorbachev, Secretary-General of the Soviet Communist Party, during a debate that raged in the Kremlin during 1986 and 1987. Moscow was grappling with some...
...This is Tsvangirai's dilemma, the same dilemma facing anyone attempting to engage with dictators around the world. The task Tsvangirai has set for himself - easing out the 85-year-old tyrant without resorting to bad behavior himself - is far harder than Mugabe's goal of staying in power by whatever means necessary. Because of this, Tsvangirai can often seem like he is stumbling in comparison. For example, when he says that popular support equals political dominance, he sounds like he's not facing up to reality - talking about the way things should be in Zimbabwe rather than what they...