Word: dilemmas
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...short, arms control has to be seen as a political process of communication, learning, and development of institutions for international security. That will require the full fruition of the 1960 insight about the possibility of using communication to alleviate the classical problems of the prisoner's dilemma and realizing the military interdependence symbolized by the term "common security...
...Alfred E. Vellucci, who served as mayor in 1970 and 1971, says that the dilemma the current council faces is nothing compared to what the council dealt with during his tenure...
...THIS creates an uncomfortable dilemma for the Democrats. Like all Americans, they hope for a short, successful war--exactly the kind of war that will send Bush's approval ratings into the stratosphere and keep their own party out of the White House. Thus, what is undeniably beneficial for the country is politically destructive for the Democrats. Sen. Ted Kennedy's cool reception at Fort Devens last month demonstrates this precarious situation...
...Anne Willoughby had a dilemma. She is the director of a study begun in 1988 to see if infusions of immunoglobulin (IG) in children infected with the AIDS virus could boost their weak immune systems and help stave off illness. An independent panel that had been monitoring the investigation informed Willoughby early this month that children receiving monthly doses of IG, a protein produced by the body's cells, were faring significantly better than those given a placebo. The youngsters had fewer bacterial infections and fewer hospitalizations. News of the advance in treatment could have enormous consequences...
Such ideological activism poses a Democratic dilemma. Groups like the H.W.P.C. are liberal on social and foreign policy issues but moderate on economic ones. Mainstream Democrats are precisely the opposite: they care far more about economic equity than about a nuclear freeze...