Word: dilemmas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...such a controversial position as one of two females editing an obviously male-oriented magazine, I was also placed in a social dilemma. Once the magazine was released, I started to worry about what my family and friends would think of me, especially since a few liberals had already started a battle cry against the first issue. For instance, did I really want my dad to read this? After all, Inside Edge isn't something that "Daddy's little girl" would take on as a pet project. Would people think I had compromised my integrity as a female...
...year, when he was free- lancing TV scripts, he pitched an idea for a Seinfeld episode to David. Though David liked the idea, Robin left the meeting unsure whether he had a firm assignment or not. Why not put George (Jason Alexander), the hapless job seeker, in a similar dilemma? At the end of an upbeat job interview, the company president says, "I want you to have this job. Of course . . ." A phone call interrupts, and George is ushered out the door, befuddled...
...ensuing debate--which received attention in the national media, from The New York Times to Rush Limbaugh--has focused on the dilemma of fostering civility on campus without infringing on free speech. The sorority members dropped their complaint against Jacobowitz earlier this year...
This omnipresent custom raises a serious question: Where to draw the line between a monetary payment made out of respect and adherence to tradition and outright bribery. It is this dilemma that Korea's newly-elected president, Kim Young Sam, has tried to address. His answer has been quite clear...
...thought much about this dilemma back when AIDS was considered a disease of unmarried homosexual men. Now women are the fastest-growing segment of the AIDS population. From 1991 to 1992 the number of new cases among women jumped 10%, compared with 2.5% for men. Some of these women have husbands or boyfriends who are bisexual; others pick up the virus because they or their lovers are drug addicts who use contaminated needles. The majority have children...