Word: dilemma
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...accurately and succinctly portrayed the quandary faced by a good number of Asian fathers who are torn between career and family [April 16]. The dilemma is accentuated when both husband and wife are working. But there are ways to circumvent this problem. For a start, technology has allowed employers to be more flexible about when and where employees work. By cutting time spent traveling and sitting in dreary meetings, dads and moms can share more time with their children. And perhaps couples should resist the tendency to form nuclear families and go back to living in good old extended families...
...part, he is: a young, emotional musician who just needs a little lovin’. These occasional moments of triviality and ineloquence undermine Oberst’s intellectual and emotional authority—and yet, they’re undeniably sweet and charming. Ergo, the listener’s dilemma. It’s easy to have conflicting opinions about “Cassadaga.” At one moment, Oberst seems to be an immensely thoughtful songwriter addressing urgent issues of modern life. But at the next, he seems to be just another young sentimentalist who wants...
...cudgel to the think tank's idol, Friedrich Hayek, and his "intellectual creature" John Howard for what he termed their assault on social justice. Rudd described a modern dystopia of debt and high interest rates, materialism, childhood obesity, time pressure on families and societal anxiety about the future. "The dilemma for the political right is that, in John Howard's Australia, it's not supposed to be like that," Rudd argued. "The white picket fence and all it stands for is supposed to be enhanced, not undermined, by Hayek's economic revolution." A few weeks later, Rudd was Labor leader...
...fall Arnell and Home Depot will unveil Orange Works, a line of innovative products for all facets of the home. In collaborative laboratories, Arnell and his team examine a design problem and test-drive ways to fix it. Their first product, the Home Hero fire extinguisher, left, tackles a dilemma that has special meaning for Arnell. As chief creative officer and honorary commissioner for the New York City fire department, Arnell is well aware that often homeowners can't find their extinguishers when faced with a fire. But the sleek, unobtrusive Home Hero can be stored visibly in the kitchen...
...dilemma seems particularly applicable as of late. Last week, the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum teamed up with Google to allow every Google Earth user to visualize the genocide committed by the Janjaweed militia in the Darfur region of Sudan...