Word: dilemmas
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...female friend recently suffered a classic contemporary dilemma: What to furnish the apartment with first, a couch or a video-games console? A couch is nice to sit on, but a console is "a man magnet," she decided. "No male can resist the challenge." I knew what she meant. For mindless fun, you can't beat a console evening. Invite your friends over, gather round the TV, crack open a six-pack and get down to the serious business of knocking the stuffing out of them. It does wonders for your social life...
...hands of militia bands sent by Iran's conservative clerical leaders to crush the pro-democracy protest movement, while pro-Khatami student activists run for their lives. The spectacle of Khatami denouncing the students who?d launched their protest to defend his own reforms from conservative attack captures the dilemma of a man trying to change Iran?s theocracy from within. "Khatami was caught between contending forces, and had to avoid alienating any of them and show his loyalty to the system while at the same time trying to change it," says TIME correspondent William Dowell, who covered...
...cheap. ?This has put the President in the position of backing a patient bill of rights against HMOs while he also presses them to take care of the elderly,? says Dickerson. The result is that HMOs have decided to fight back, leaving many seniors with a continuity dilemma for next year: whether to accept fewer benefits at higher fees, sign up with a different HMO, or return to the standard Medicare program...
These factors argue for making the move now. But what looks right on paper doesn't necessarily feel right, and that's my father's dilemma. In the move to California, my brother and I had no choice in the matter--and now that the roles are reversed, we still don't. My father is the only one who can make this tough decision. We and our wives can advise, but ultimately all we can do is love him and support his choice...
...drugs they approve, the Trovan incident also underscores a more ominous development. ?We are running into more and more germs that are proving resistant,? says Gorman, ?and as a result we are developing more powerful antibiotics. But with greater power often comes greater side effects.? Unfortunately, this dilemma is unlikely to be resolved soon...