Word: dilemmas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...dilemma, explains Ratner, is one of public identity...
...unnamed male narrator comes by his stiff upper lip naturally. In his early 50s, he has been a successful physician, and is now a Tory M.P. on the way up. He has a beautiful wife, two talented children; he has, he confesses, "never faced a serious moral dilemma." Then he meets Anna Barton, his son Martyn's new girlfriend: "Just for a moment I had met my sort, another of my species." So has she, evidently, because before long the two are tearing at each other's clothes on a floor in Anna's London house...
...last Aug. 1 that the U.S. might send half a million soldiers, sailors and aviators to the Persian Gulf to fight a war against Iraq. But around the Pentagon and the CIA, the question is by no means dismissed out of hand: circumstances can be foreseen in which the dilemma would at least need to be addressed...
...episode was typical of a U.S. policy toward Iraq that was marked by mixed signals, interagency disputes, intelligence failures, errors of judgment and flights of wishful thinking. Behind the specific failures lurked -- and still lurks -- a general policy dilemma the U.S. has yet to resolve: Must America dance with the devil to promote its strategic interests? When is the enemy of your enemy your friend...
Ellwood also notes that the New Paradigm does not address two of the most important poverty issues: the impoverished situation of single-parent families and the dilemma of people who work full time and still remain below the poverty line...