Word: dilemma
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Pink washing creates a dilemma for charities like Komen, which raises about $30 million a year by working with pink-promotion partners. Clearly, it's better for corporations to give something than nothing, and these programs do make it easy for people to donate. "We're always looking for ways to engage consumers in the breast- cancer cause by capturing them where they live, work and play," says Cindy Schneible, Komen's vice president of resource development. "But what we began to see that was troubling were programs that didn't carry a transparent disclaimer. They would say a percentage...
...bizarre chain of recent school shootings have particularly challenged us with this dilemma. The shootings are so inexplicable that traditional ways of honoring the dead seem to pale. When these rituals were first scripted, did anyone conceive that they would need to address a loss as unfathomable as this? And how do the rest of us mourn respectfully without looking like we?re rubbernecking at a car accident...
...Given the U.S. commitment to Georgia, the standoff raises a dilemma for the Bush Administration: Unless both Putin and Saakashvili are restrained, the spat that began with the arrest of four Russian officers could degenerate quickly into a real disaster...
...nine-member presidential search committee is considering her as a candidate. In addition, the sources said the committee is paying no attention to a candidate’s publicly stated disinterest in the presidency. Gutmann is considered a strong contender for the presidency, but her candidacy presents a dilemma for the University. If she is willing to turn her back on an institution she has led for only two years, some search committee members believe this could represent a larger loyalty issue that would make her an unattractive candidate, according to sources close to the search committee. Ron Ozio...
...that people on both sides of the cloning debate agree upon, it's that cloning is an incredibly inefficient process. When it comes to cloning animals, like Dolly and Snuppy, the process produces a healthy animal only a dismal 1% to 5% of the time. This hit-or-miss dilemma wouldn't matter much if producing identical animals were its only application, but cloning is also the foundation for one of the more promising ways that stem cells might be used to treat human disease with a patient's own cells. At this rate, even cloning's most ardent supporters...