Word: dilemmas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...such a test could create a dilemma of a different sort: do people really want to know that Alzheimer's lies in their future when medicine can offer no cure? "If there's no way of controlling what happens to you," observes University of Iowa neurologist Dr. Antonio Damasio, "then it's unclear that early diagnosis provides an advantage. What you're probably going to do is worry yourself sick...
Because of a refusal to acknowledge that any claim to rights must be accompanied by attendant responsibilities, women like Koestner are to an extent complicit in their dilemma. They do a severe disservice to those women who are raped and assaulted by strangers. Am I discounting date-rape as a legitimate trauma? No. I certainly appreciate that date rape is traumatic and that being violated by someone who is known to you can be just as painful, but it is more readily avoidable...
...good folks riled over the pointy-heads in power, you can get yourself elected, even if your own head resembles a No. 2 pencil. But then you take office and are expected to legislate anger. How do you do that? This is the Republicans' dilemma: how to breathe fire and chew up the scenery, but gently, so as not to alarm the moderate voters...
...that although many classes do have separate graduate sections, not all the graduates are in them. Graduates should be required, if enrolling in one of the "primarily for undergraduate" classes, to limit themselves to attending and participating in graduate sections only. The other alternative to solving this dilemma necessitates a little more work that administrators may find much too difficult and time consuming for their ever-increasing agendas--hiring more experienced teaching fellows who can tackle the challenge of sophisticated moderation in section...
Contrast that with Tomassoni's "We're not as talented as people think we are" from one week ago, and one has a dilemma...