Word: dilemma
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...with a byzantine yield-management pricing system that tries to factor in fuel prices, weather, congestion and everything else that complicates air travel. "It's not like any other business I know," says Grinstein. Selling an airline ticket is "more like trying to figure out a prisoner's dilemma than it is about trying to sell a can of paint." (Guess who's the prisoner?) Compare JetBlue's walk-up fares with Delta's advance-purchase fares, he says, and you'll see little difference. Still, demand is unusually high this year, meaning travelers should expect a summer of shoulder...
...Fathers on the Fast Track The dads' dilemma in Asia and beyond is compounded by father substitutes such as television, the Internet, gaming gadgets, nannies and even mothers willing to take on the role of fathers [April 16]. Fathering is deliberate and takes a lot of hard work. Sometimes it is easier to be passionate about excellence at work than at home. If we fathers have goals and visions for our careers and businesses, we need to have a greater vision for our families and an even greater resolve to do everything that we can to make that vision...
...that the war on terrorism has led to the most repressive period in American history. Those who say this know nothing of American history,” University of Chicago constitutional law professor Geoffrey R. Stone writes in his latest book, “War and Liberty, An American Dilemma: 1790 to the Present.” Stone’s work chronicles the repression of personal freedoms during periods of war throughout American history, from the Sedition Act of 1798 to the Patriot Act of 2001. Stone uses the first periods he describes to acquaint the reader with...
...height-friendly can be a completely different story.“Most of the doors you have to duck to get through, but it’s something you learn to do pretty quickly,” Unger said.Weissbourd and Boston also suffer from this architectural dilemma, with Boston noting that on his head he has “a nice little callus to prove that fact.”For the female population, the standard door height might not be as much of a problem, however impositions are still provided by a different industry—that of fashion...
...handpick those Iraqis who would participate. In practice, that meant Ahmed Chalabi and a handful of other well-known, longtime exiled oppositionists, along with the leaders of the essentially autonomous Kurdish areas. The differences in approach were clear and starkly articulated. The vice president himself summed up the dilemma: The choice, he said, was between "control and legitimacy." [Undersecretary of Defense] Doug Feith clearly stated his belief that it would not be necessary for the Iraqi exiles to legitimize themselves: "We can legitimize them," he said, through our economic assistance and the good governance the U.S. would provide. They never...