Word: dilemmas
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...legal dilemma involves two competing clauses in the nation's governing document. Article I, Section 8, of the Constitution states, "The Congress shall have Power . . . to declare War." But according to Article II, Section 2, "The President shall be Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States." In Judge Greene's courtroom, Attorney Stuart Gerson of the Justice Department argued that history provides numerous examples of Presidents exercising their powers as Commander in Chief without a formal declaration of war. Thomas Jefferson, he noted, committed the Navy to battle against the Barbary pirates without a green...
...also suits AT&T's long-term computer strategy. The two companies' machines are largely compatible, using the same operating software, called Unix, invented by AT&T in 1969. As a result, they would be able to integrate their product lines rather than face the dilemma of having to eliminate a system. But more important for AT&T, the addition of NCR would enhance the company's position in its ongoing battle with IBM to establish Unix as the industry standard. Both companies want to replace the technically outdated standard known as DOS. IBM's entry, called OS/2, appears...
...scientific community is responsible in a major way for the paradoxes and dilemmas in which we find ourselves. The paradox is that this decay is occurring at a time when there are more opportunities than ever to ferret out the secrets of human biology and apply those secrets to the reduction of human suffering. The dilemma is that we must obtain more funding for the support of this effort in order to capitalize on those opportunities and improve the morale of the scientific community, while at the same time acknowledging that we have been generously supported for the past...
Clovis Maksoud, who is also a visiting professor at American University, said in a speech in the Science Center that Iraq's invasion of oil-rich Kuwait had created a frustrating dilemma for the Arab countries...
...meets girl served for a half-century as sufficient plot for virtually every Broadway musical. Then came a couple of decades of boy meets exotic locale, boy meets social dilemma, boy meets religious destiny, and boy meets his literary creator -- not to mention similarly unromantic encounters among personified animals and steam engines. Even musicals that focused on love tended to be wistful and full of woe, as if passion must always be a snare and delusion or a doom-struck mistake...