Word: dilemmas
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President Clinton this morning warned the country about the danger of computers running amok come January 1, 2000, saying that although there could be serious problems, there's no need to panic. Indeed, the President's mixed message illustrates his dilemma -- if he ignores the millennium bug, he seems out of touch; if he dwells on it too much he opens himself to charges of not having done more sooner, and risks sowing panic. Stung by Republican complaints that he hasn't addressed the Y2K problem, Clinton said he'll ask Congress to approve a "Good Samaritan" law to encourage...
...thing to say an archantagonist like Lewinsky's ex-lawyer Bill Ginsburg couldn't cut a deal with Starr; but if pinstripes like Cacheris and Stein can't convince Starr that Lewinsky is offering all she knows, it would seem to put everyone in a very different dilemma...
...carrying nation a safer nation? Fearful of being victimized by indiscriminate violence, many Americans are gnawed by a dilemma: Should I or shouldn't I carry a gun? The question is a real one for a growing number of Americans because the tally of states with "right to carry" laws has gone from eight to 31 since 1985. These states will issue a concealed-weapon permit to any citizen without a criminal record who wants one--no questions asked...
...aims high but still isn't quite art. In fact, who knows what to make of a film whose primary virtue, together with the quality of its acting, is the scale of its ambition, yet which grows in plot and theme more and more critical of ambition? This narrative dilemma, rather than weakening Cholodenko's film, actually gives it structure and power, sustaining High Art through occasional lapses in its storytelling and making of it an intriguing if not wholly successful picture...
Talk turned, as it does these days, to Bill Clinton's sex life, to Ken Starr's pursuit and Monica Lewinsky's dilemma. The atmospheric pressure in the room abruptly changed, from light and bantering to something like road rage...