Word: dilemmas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Secretary of Labor Robert Reich has written extensively on the dilemma of the American worker in a global economy. TIME associate editor Janice Castro recently talked to him about the trend toward a contingent, or temporary, labor force...
...contingent work force is outside the system of worker-management relationships and expectations we've created over the years. Larger and larger numbers of Americans are working far longer hours and often at several jobs. The nation faces a dilemma and a challenge. Does this mean we should begin to dismantle that system of protections? Is it simply too expensive for employers...
...young. Left without either of his own, he was always attracted to other people's parents, insinuating himself upon those of his schoolfriends. In time he befriends his in-laws. The moment that this rootless orphan achieves stability in marriage, he is introduced to a couple which epitomizes his dilemma. His wife's parents are two opposites: the father, Bernard, is a rational humanist; the mother, June, a fervent, unquestioning Christian. In their youth, both had been dedicated communists, eager to change the world with their backpacks full of good intentions. Then God revealed himself to June, and she stopped...
...McEwan does not let the cerebral construction of the book dominate the intuitive emotional content. The dilemma of the characters infects the style of writing: Black Dogs wavers between Bernard's meticulous, scientific analysis and June's visceral, ethereal visions, between McEwan's contemporary influences and overtones of Conrad...
...risks are very small," said Clinton. He dismissed fears that the U.S. would become entangled in the demonic conflicts tearing at the former Yugoslavia, saying that Washington was embarked only on a short-term emergency mission. Not everyone was reassured by an Administration facing its first major diplomatic dilemma: how to square campaign talk of tougher action against Serbian aggression with the European and Russian reluctance to interfere militarily in what they see as a civil...