Word: dilemma
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...place in the sun." Her Majesty's Britain was not amused, and neither were Russia and France. Armament begat counter-armament, alliances spawned counter-alliances. Domestically, too, the Reich resembled contemporary China. Having unleashed irrepressible economic growth, the Kaiser and his aristocracy found themselves in the same deadly dilemma as Deng's heirs today: How to keep power away from the rising middle classes? The answer: nationalism and chauvinism, which exacerbated diplomatic conflicts with Berlin's neighbors...
...April’s holiday schedule often creates time constraints for universities who decide to have weekend visiting programs. The universities do not consult each other about potential dates, so elite colleges often share visiting weekends and create a dilemma for students accepted to multiple schools, said Director of Admissions Marlyn McGrath-Lewis...
...There's a kind of dilemma here for students, who have helped to stimulate this very significant review, which is a definite kind of success," he said. "But the review did not come out where they wanted...
...outcome of the South Africa case may be a headache for the pharmaceutical giants, but it also a poses a dilemma for the government that won the suit. The resistance of the drug companies had given the government of President Thabo Mbeki a ready explanation for its failure to make anti-retrovirals available to South Africa's infected population. But even at the substantially lower prices made possible by importing generic versions, a mass treatment campaign would be a mammoth expense to the cash-strapped government. Simply providing the medical infrastructure to supply the drugs to some 5 million people...
...having criticized Berezovsky so heavily over the years, the amount of pride they'd have to swallow to go and work with him will be a real challenge to their journalistic integrity. Going to work for Berezovsky because Gazprom has taken over NTV is an incredibly tangled moral dilemma. As is staying on after having protested so fiercely against the Gazprom takeover. But these people also have to earn a living. It's not a good time to be a young, hardworking and well-educated Russian journalist right now, because attractive opportunities are few and far between...