Word: dilemma
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...actually showed up to fight and die alongside American soldiers and Marines; more were inspired to take up arms and fight as insurgents and militiamen. In many important respects that dynamic has not changed. Any politician seeking to break the power of Shi'ite militias is faced with a dilemma: you cannot survive in Iraqi politics, much less take on the militias, unless you have armed men of your...
...also, says Robert F. Bruner, dean of the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business, a classic "prisoner's dilemma." In game theory, the dilemma involves two arrestees deciding whether to squeal. Here it's about whether to pull your money from the market. For each worried individual, the rational answer is yes, but the financial system is far better off if everybody agrees not to. The invisible hand of the market can't deliver the best outcome; collective action, Bruner says, is the only good answer...
...suggestion of a confessor, she wrote the agonized plea that begins this section, in which she explored the theological worst-possible-case implications of her dilemma. That letter and another one from 1959 ("What do I labour for? If there be no God - there can be no soul - if there is no Soul then Jesus - You also are not true") are the only two that sound any note of doubt of God's existence. But she frequently bemoaned an inability to pray: "I utter words of Community prayers - and try my utmost to get out of every word the sweetness...
What's driving the decline? Evans' work-life dilemma is a good place to start. As a result of Title IX's success, women coaches are expected to win as much as the men. With those expectations come crippling hours, including weekends spent on the road recruiting. That puts unique pressure on women with families, who, since they are less likely to find a spouse ready to back-burner a career to raise the kids, may have more trouble than their male counterparts in making child-care arrangements...
...knows the dilemma he faces. "I don't like immigration as it's playing today," Richardson told the Wells Fargo audience. "Everywhere I go everywhere, everywhere I campaign, there's somebody in the audience, somebody gets up and says: ?Governor, how do you feel about immigration?' And deep down I feel like they are worried, that they're thinking: ?He's Hispanic and he's going to open the border...