Word: dilemmas
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Hanks' Andy is a wonderful fellow: chipper, supremely competent, lavishing genial respect on colleagues high and low. He also seems a good subject for a sensibly daring film about AIDS. And for its first hour, Philadelphia is a pretty fine social comedy about private pain; it lays out the dilemma with a grace almost worthy of Hanks' bravely understated playing. But then it becomes % much too timid. It says that the death threat hanging over gays commands our sympathy for them. It renounces character shadings for easy good guys (Andy's huge family, each one of them amazingly accepting...
...exactly at a moment such as this, in the aftermath of a searing crime, that gun-control advocates run into a dilemma. For each person watching the mayhem on the 5:33 who came away thinking it is time to take the guns away from the madmen, someone else was thinking it might be time to go out and buy a gun. A lot of people, in fact, may be thinking both at once...
Local governments are trapped into a classical Prisoner's Dilemma. If all governments refrained from granting incentives, they would generally gain; but it behooves each local government to entice businesses, which then puts all the other local governments at a competitive disadvantage if they don't jump in the fray...
Located on 66 Dunster St. behind Kirkland House, the shelter stands as a microcosm of societal and human difficulty. "You realize how individual problems are for each person. Each person is a different history and dilemma," Rogahn said. "It's definitely eye-opening...
...need rival views and a wider range of workable choices. While NAFTA does not provide the answer to this dilemma, it points us in the direction of new strategies and new ways of thinking...