Word: dilemmas
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...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...
...year, but I have concluded that the answer is yes. I'm not sure exactly how large the increase should be, and I'd like to find a less cumbersome process for changing it in the future, but those are details. The fee should go up. To explain the dilemma about this and why I have come out as I have, I need to give some background...
...dilemma is that he is the prisoner of the Chinese Communist Party, which he leads 50 years after its revolution: a party that is empty of vision, worried about unrest, out of touch with a younger generation of Chinese for whom money, not ideology, is the bottom line. The harder Jiang tries to impress, the less China's population wants to listen. He understands the need for economic development, but political openness is still out of the question. Even as the ink was drying on the trade deal, police were detaining members of Falun Gong, the banned meditation cult...
Confronted with a dilemma of Solomonic proportions - whether to allow the construction of a mosque adjacent to one of the most sacred Christian sites in the Holy Land - the Israeli government ended up doing what was politically expedient. Israel Wednesday rejected the Vatican?s accusation that the Jewish state was fomenting religious division by permitting the new building next to the Basilica of the Annunciation in Nazareth. "In the end it was simply a political decision," says TIME Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyer. "There are a lot more Muslim voters in Israel than there are Christian voters. That's what...