Word: dilemmas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...seems to me that the Loker dilemma has a very simple solution: reduce the number of classes a student must take each semester. This plan requires a subsequent reduction in course requirements. If students take fewer courses, they will have less work and consequently have leisure time, which Loker is attempting to capitalize upon. This plan has an added benefit. Since each student can take fewer courses, the number of students in each class will decrease drastically. With this plan, not only will attendance at Loker social events boom, but Harvard will rise up once more in the U.S. News...
...Paddy, a destruction of the unions by mob cohorts produces a more deadly dilemma: if he cooperates with the Italians and agrees to bully union leaders into resigning, he will destroy his brother's chances, his family's livelihood and forge an alliance with the Mafia that is potentially lethal. If he refuses, he will be eradicated by the violence that has made him rich. Both brothers are faced with impossible choices and impossible decisions that draw them deeper into the world of the New York underground than a sandhog ever ventured...
While Cambridge shares the problem of dwindling federal funds with many U.S. communities, its dilemma is distinguished by a unique set of circumstances. One of the most devastating blows to Cambridge's supply of low-income housing was the recent loss of rent control...
...select early in their academic careers. Even if I do not accept advanced standing, I will have to name a subject area to which I will devote the next three years of my life. It feels a bit premature. However, I am heartened by the thought that my dilemma is one that many classes of Harvard have faced and overcome...
...could hardly touch my morel-sauced salmon, so fixated was I on the dilemma he had placed us in. As the cut-rate Kinsley, I would have to start charging Netly News hounds--what? Nine dollars and ninety-five cents? No way. I happen to know Netly News readers believe in the free lunch. Some have even asked me for small loans...