Word: dilemmas
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Pritchett's dilemma is this: He suspects that a wiley student--perhaps a disgruntled Review staffer--sabatoged the paper's computer system in order to embarrass its editors. But given the Review's history of outlandish behavior, who'd believe...
...latest political impasse with Congress presents Bush with a tough election-year dilemma. The President does not want to alienate black voters, about half of whom currently support him in opinion polls. But neither does he want to jeopardize the crucial votes of blue-collar Reagan Democrats who oppose any hint of racial job quotas. Tepid conservative supporters and worried business groups, moreover, say they are against any law that could draw more civil rights claims into court. "This is a turning point, a defining moment in the Bush presidency," says Ralph Neas, executive director of the Leadership Conference...
Although this is the first time since the early 1970s that Harvard has faced such a substantial financial crunch, the University is not alone in its dilemma. Other major research institutions, like Columbia and Stanford, have also announced their own plans for cutbacks...
Harvard director Gibbs was faced with the dilemma of wanting to cross cast while remaining true to the intentions of the scriptwriter when holding auditions for this fall's performance of Tiny Alice. "I wanted to cast the best actors--male or female. However, it became clear during auditions that gender cross casting would be disruptive to Albee's script...
...past in many ways personifies the abiding Polish dilemma born of geography and the hard knocks of history. Jaruzelski was 16 when Nazi Germany attacked Poland in 1939, and he recalls vividly how, on a clear September day 51 years ago, he and his family crossed into Lithuania as refugees. "I thought then that the heavens had fallen in on me," Jaruzelski recalls. "We were convinced that we would return home soon, that an English-French offensive would enable the Polish army to go on fighting against the Germans. It was not to happen...