Word: dilemmas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...calibration of Peres' reaction reflects his dilemma that whichever way he moves, he has everything to lose. If his answer to the bombings is too soft, his constituents will throw him out of power as punishment and elect an opposition that threatens to freeze if not reverse the peace process. If Peres hits back too hard, he risks unraveling the peace by making an enemy of Arafat and hopelessly antagonizing the Palestinians. Between those alternatives there isn't much room. Said former U.S. Ambassador to Israel Sam Lewis: "Both the peace process and Shimon Peres are on life support...
...membership poses no question of integrity. I will let the ignorant continue in their bliss. Rather, I am specifically talking to you who pretend to be so innocent. I am speaking to you who think nobility is merely having moral qualms about club membership, but drink away such a dilemma in the company of female hordes. I am speaking to you who passively participate in what is to your female friends a sexually offensive atrocity. I am speaking to you who are a bit embarrassed about the female baiting and fishing trips to Wellesley...
...dilemma is that the large corporations control the media, and no institution likes to criticize itself. Consequently, the American people are left alone to figure out for themselves that they are being played for suckers! So far, deception is winning! --Gary Sudborough
Still, ever since his surprising success in Iowa, Buchanan has been faced with a personal dilemma: whether and how to adjust his persona from that of the rowdy creator of a movement to its responsible leader. And so lately he has tried on a new voice. The 600 or so folks who turned up on Wednesday night at the Evangel Cathedral in Spartanburg, South Carolina, were treated to a remarkable spectacle: Patrick Buchanan preaching redemption. Buchanan left political veterans gasping when he borrowed the catechism of Jesse Jackson's campaign, the Old Testament verse that went with him everywhere...
With the advent of the new protease inhibitors, researchers find themselves in a dilemma. Given what they know about how and when the virus reproduces, it makes more sense to try to attack HIV sooner than later. But they also know that if they don't hit it hard enough, the virus will mutate into a resistant strain. That's why drugs are given in combination--so that a virus resistant to one drug might still be wiped out by one of the others. But there are preliminary indications that viruses resistant to protease inhibitors may have already started...