Word: dilemmas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Your story "Banana Wars," on trade agreements and restrictions [BUSINESS, Feb. 8], painted a one-sided picture of the dilemma. The dependency of Caribbean islands like St. Vincent and the Grenadines on bananas for hard currency far outweighs Chiquita's need to maintain market share in Europe. Perhaps if Chiquita's chairman, Carl Lindner, had not spent so much time and money lobbying Congress and the White House, his company would not have "lost money four of the past five years." It's been said that business is war, and wars cost money. Chiquita is at war with the eastern...
...Considering some of the traumas she has endured, this is quite understandable. She is perhaps the most demure sensual beast ever to have graced the modern novel with her penchant for provocation. As the heroine of Sue Miller's newest novel, While I Was Gone, Jo faces a grave dilemma: how to reconcile her domesticated life as a 52-year-old mother, wife and veterinarian with her sensual fantasies and hippie past. She is fascinated by naked flesh, particularly that of her daughters, her husband and her bar-waitress friends. Unlike her loving husband Daniel, a minister who professes...
Patterson emphasizes the dilemma many parents face in the MCAS issue...
...adjectives in a row were as nothing to her, forever confounding my own advice to would-be writers to go sparingly, that one at a time is enough. Her novels flowed in a glittery stream from the first, Under the Net, in 1954, to the last, Jackson's Dilemma, in 1995, after which Alzheimer's claimed her. Her graceful descent into the state of unmindedness was chronicled by Bayley in his tender book, Elegy for Iris, which serves as a memorial to her person. Her novels remain as a testament to Iris Murdoch, the writer...
...turned out, my digital dilemma was moot. Fox chose not to broadcast the game in HDTV after all. Apparently the network is waiting for a bigger event, like a live Mars landing or the final episode of The Simpsons...