Word: dilemmas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...debate is just beginning. "It is a very deep ethical and social dilemma," says Dr. Harvey Fineberg, dean of the Harvard School of Public Health, "and fraught with all manner of emotional responses." One thing is certain: each year about 1,800 newborns in the U.S. are infected with HIV. If AZT can safely reduce that number, the pressure for routine testing will only rise...
...face a delicate dilemma, caught between indifference and censorship. It's difficult distinction, but by no means unresolvable...
...suit presents women's groups with a dilemma similar to the one they faced when Republican Senator Bob Packwood of Oregon was accused of sexual harassment, albeit in that case more than 20 women came forward to make the charge. How fast should women's groups jump to the accuser's defense when her target is a man who has supported many of their goals? For now they are moving very carefully. "We think both Paula Jones and President Clinton deserve their day in court," says Patricia Ireland, president of the National Organization for Women. "We are not going...
...many students, another dilemma remains--how to treat the date. According to students, the etiquette of the date is a very important way of communicating the date's potential for romance...
...general George McClellan, who seldom met a battle he couldn't find reason to avoid. The paradigm for politics is George Washington, who orchestrated history's most successful transition from monarchy to republicanism. Washington's achievement, as Wills sees it, was to bring "legal rule out of the false dilemma posed in revolutionary times -- either charisma or chaos." Wills' political antitype is Oliver Cromwell, who became as regal as Charles I, the Stuart king he dethroned and executed...