Word: dilemmas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Safely out of Idaho's fiscal dilemma now is former Governor Chase A. Clark, who had signed the Senior Citizen's initiative petition, put it on the ballot. Clark thus made himself his own victim. To be valid in Idaho, such a law passed by popular referendum must receive more than 50% of the total vote for Governor. So oldsters voted light for Governor, heavy for their pensions. Result: Clark lost by 434 votes, pensions...
...dilemma facing men who have until the middle of February to evaporate into the ERC but will not be able to get home between the end of the term and induction time will be solved by the end of the week, Dean Hanford announced last night. Some place will be found for them to stay when forced to leave their rooms on February 1 in the face of a Yardling migration...
...majority of music critics today fill their columns with superficial talk about conductors and soloists, it means that something that would otherwise absorb their energies has gone dead on them. They are in the familiar nightmare dilemma of being forced to address a huge, hushed audience with nothing whatsoever to say. In other words, the time has passed when the comparative greatness of contemporary composers was a fighting proposition, and critics were looked to for real leadership in the matter of opinion. So much facile and bewilderingly unintelligible music has been turned out in the last decade that critics...
...general education which will be the basis of later cultural and intellectual growth. The domains of knowledge are today too widely extended to permit of any adequate survey before the average man wishes to leave his studies and take up a full-time job. As an answer to this dilemma there may well be an enormous expansion of so-called adult education in the post-war world. Such expansion should properly include both general and vocational work...
...they were not smart enough to whip the eternal dilemma of the man-hunted. All they gained was liquor and women : as they moved from apartment to apartment they left a trail of bobby pins and empty bottles. Otherwise life was just like prison - except that it was riskier...