Word: dilemmas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...find other people to trade with in the San Francisco Bay Area. Omidyar was already an e-commerce pioneer (Microsoft eventually bought out eShop, a company he co-founded), but lately he had been wrestling with how the Internet could be used to create fairer markets. The Pez dilemma led Omidyar to the flash of an idea: an Internet auction site could function as the ultimate efficient market...
...stumbling across others who share similar cultural experiences and can lend them a sympathetic ear. While other minorities have places to turn to for understanding, such as the Asian American Association, Black Students Association or RAZA, students whose backgrounds encompass more than one ethnicity are faced with a dilemma--assimilate or choose just one race to identify with...
...dilemma for many families at Columbine is ours as well. For months they have searched for answers. "It's not going to bring anything or anybody back," says Mike Kirklin, whose son survived a shot in the face. "But we do need to know. Why did they do this?" Still, the last thing the survivors want is to see these boys on the cover of another magazine, back in the headlines, on the evening news. We need to understand them, but we don't want to look at them. And yet there is no escaping this story. Last week another...
...idealize American society--the only quibble one might have with the play is that it never mentions any positive aspects of Chinese culture, perhaps because it is written from a Chinese-American viewpoint. Bibi's problems include a lack of direction and dissatisfaction with her career in journalism--her dilemma stems from an overabundance of choices. While Bibi's problem lies in too many men from which to choose, Karen can only choose one. Bibi complains of quickly changing one job for another, but Karen cannot leave her job. When Bibi contemplates suicide in a letter, Karen says the only...
...Another dilemma for the Agency is that the better qualified the candidate, the lengthier the clearance process becomes. It would be easy to clear Andy Taylor or Barney Fife, as they spent most of their lives in Mayberry. But for the well-traveled, internationally-connected and ultimately more valuable candidate, the CIA has to devote greater time and resources to scrutinizing the past for possible complications. Moreover, with the Aldrich Ames betrayal to the KGB and allegations of espionage by nuclear scientist Wen Ho Lee, the CIA may be pressured to conduct even more comprehensive checks on potential employees...