Word: dilemmas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...social observations. In Fishin', Easy emerges as an Everyman of the segregated pre-World War II rural South: semiliterate, marginally employed, the victim of numerous acts of offhand racism. He inhabits a blues-toned, all-black world of juke joints, odd jobs and broken people wrestling with the same dilemma: "If all you got is two po'k chops an' ten chirren, what you gonna do?" The answer: improvise and live with the consequences...
Despite this record, Gates is not wearing a seat belt. (A dilemma: Is it too uncool to use mine?) He rarely looks at you when he talks, which is disconcerting, but he does so when he's driving, which is doubly disconcerting. (I buckle up. As his mother and others have learned, it's not always prudent to compete.) He turns into a dark drive with a chain-link fence that slides open as the Lexus approaches. It's nearing midnight, and the security guard looks a bit startled...
...dilemma no head of state could envy, and it took Fujimori's security forces completely by surprise. In recent months they had become convinced that they had won the war on terrorism that Peru had been fighting for more than 15 years. Forty minutes after the initial attack, the police withdrew from the compound and began shouting at the guerrillas. The guerrillas yelled back the suggestion that the security squads go find themselves a megaphone. When police lobbed tear gas into the compound, the rebels simply pulled on their gas masks while the hostages sputtered and choked...
There may be more bumps ahead. Because what is at stake in the coming day-care crunch is of far more consequence than whether little Janie watches too much Rug Rats. Without a good solution to the day-care dilemma, welfare reform has no hope of breaking the "cycle of dependency" and may in fact exacerbate it. For starters, a study by Marcia Meyers at Columbia University's School of Social Work has shown that good, reliable child care is a key factor in whether a welfare mother can perform well on the job and stick with...
Furthermore, the staff position is somewhat contradictory. The staff claims that voters were especially concerned with candidate's agendas. Why, then would voters choose to split the tickets, instead of simply electing the running-mates who proposed the most attractive positions? The staff attempt to resolve this dilemma by suggesting that students weighed the benefits of electing running-mates with a unified agenda against the positive aspects of more splitting the tickets to encourage "openness on the council." This tortued logic is utterly ridiculous...