Word: dilemmas
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Montoya says she sees this turn of events as evidence of the club's overall unity in the face of the dollar dilemma...
...liberal arts colleges and universities such as Harvard reconcile the dilemma between the seeming impracticality of a liberal arts education and the demand for specialized skills in an work force ever more technologically complex? Can they convince the rest of the country (and humanities majors' parents, who wonder just what that $100,000 tuition is going toward) that a humanistic education is valuable even though it does not create ready-made employees? Or must liberal arts schools resign themselves to strictures of practicality and subscribe to the principle of "operational utility," defined by Michael R. Harris as a mandate implying...
...officials neither accepted the half-baked deal Milosevic proposed nor believed he would deliver on it, insisting that nothing less than Karadzic's complete ouster and arrest would do. But the U.S. is desperate to find a solution that will help ease the White House out of an ugly dilemma...
...while the criminal investigation was still in process. Itagaki was forced to withdraw voluntarily in order to postpone his Ad Board hearing, because any testimony that he would have given to the Board could and would have been used against him by the prosecutor in the criminal case--a dilemma he would not have faced had the Ad Board adhered to its own regulation and waited until the criminal case were over...
...metaphor for what remains a deeper conundrum about computers: despite their growing power and ubiquity, especially in modern offices, the resulting increase in productivity is almost negligible. Tenner offers some convincing reasons why this might be so (time-consuming software upgrades; downsized secretarial pools), but no reassurance that the dilemma will ever be resolved...