Word: dilemmas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When I was a freshman at Duke University, orientation consisted of posture tests in a drafty gym and an awkward mixer in the chapel parking lot. We received a reading list before our arrival that included such books as Black Rage and Living with Sex: The Student's Dilemma, but no one bothered to discuss them with us. Adrift in the temporary calm between Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination and the shootings at Kent State, we struggled to survive the transition from high school to college with as much grace as we could muster. Being a freshman...
...days as a dorm counselor while attending Harvard Law School. Souter told the committee of spending two hours advising a student's pregnant girlfriend who was considering a self-induced abortion. Souter did not say what he recommended, but indicated that he was fully aware of the human dilemma posed by such situations. "I remember that afternoon," he said...
...minor debates of the Persian Gulf crisis is whether President Bush should be spending the dog days of August taking his ease in Kennebunkport, Me. How have other key players in his Administration responded to the vacation or not-to-vacation dilemma...
...hinted that it might take hostages. The regime announced it could not be expected "to act honorably at a time when ((foreigners)) are conspiring against us and our brothers in Iraq." If Saddam does interpose these civilians between himself and his confronters, the Western powers will face the nastiest dilemma: giving in to the demands of a vicious brute or risking thousands of innocent lives to squash...
Typical is the dilemma of California's Campo tribe of Mission Indians, whose land lies 68 miles east of San Diego. Leaders of the community of 250 people are negotiating with a waste-disposal company to build a landfill and recycling plant that would be fed up to 3,000 tons of garbage a day from San Diego County. This would be a boon for the county, which is running out of landfill. For the Indians, the project would bring jobs and "millions" in income, says tribal EPA chairman Michael Connelly-Misquish...