Word: dilemma
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...annual salary offers. Before any of us gets accustomed to $20 martinis, we should ask ourselves if a lavish lifestyle is the best use of our disposable income. Let’s spend away—but only if each of us can honestly resolve the following moral dilemma, borrowed from the book The Ethics of Assistance...
...fourth rebuttal is defensible. Taken to its logical end, the moral dilemma seems to suggest that we should privilege no one and that our families and fellow citizens are no more deserving of our money than the incredibly poor. But there are good reasons for why investing in our children, reciprocating care to aging parents, and building a safe, trusting, and mutually supportive society is of special importance...
...This denial presents a dilemma for Thailand, which enjoys good relations with North Korea. Sihasak Phuangketkaew, a Thai Foreign Ministry spokesman, says, "We have considerable grounds to think this is the same person, but we want to leave the door open, and we want to work with the North Koreans on this...
Although the record book reports little internal drama, one instance near the end of The Club’s existence indicates the changing attitudes of some of its members. During the Nov. 24, 1913 election meeting, The Club was faced with an unprecedented dilemma: several of its members wanted to resign...
...down and wrote a letter to the government proposing a dialogue on the nation's future. This gesture received a secret but surprisingly willing response from President P.W. Botha, a hard-liner on apartheid who nonetheless had begun to sense his country's escalating dilemma. Apartheid was collapsing of its own inherent absurdity. Moreover, the outlawed A.N.C.'s 1984 call to make South Africa ''ungovernable'' had been answered by a surge of black demonstrations and acts of civil disobedience. To put down such unrest, the government had to use increasingly brutal police and military actions, many of them filmed...