Word: dilemmas
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...method Mitch uses to solve his dilemma is also much more plausible--and clever. As in the book, he plays both sides off each other. In the movie, however, the gravity of the consequences of full cooperation with the FBI--disbarment, career termination, etc.--are much more vivid, and Mitch's determination to follow his oath as a lawyer while getting free of the firm is powerfully portrayed...
...young Marxists are advocating economic change before political change -- the path the Chinese insist they are taking, in contrast to the approach favored by Mikhail Gorbachev when he ran the Soviet Union. "Communist parties around the world have faced our same dilemma, the sequence of reform," says Monreal. "In Cuba's case, the choice was to promote economic reform first. That will transform the state." The yummies admit that major alterations in the political system are unlikely anytime soon. "How can you open up political reform while the economy is a mess? It's suicidal," argues political scientist Santiago Perez...
...France's Roussel Uclaf. Its corporate parent, Germany's huge Hoechst chemical company, feared a pro-life boycott of its American products if it allowed RU 486 to be marketed in the U.S. And Yorkin threatened a pro-choice boycott if it didn't. In the face of this dilemma and some badgering by the FDA, the company did what a typically cautious multinational would: it passed its burden (or tried to, anyway) onto the shoulders of someone else, in this case the nonprofit Population Council...
...Office of Career Services has no doubt turned its back on Drury's career "dilemma" (were we all in such demand right out of college), but the captain of Harvard's 1992-93 men's hockey team already has a bright resume to reflect upon, including a season on the 1992 Olympic Team...
...giving up, I made the now-familiar rounds of student agencies to find out why they thought I had graduated in March and how I could convince them otherwise. I approached the Registrar, the Student Loan Office, the Student Billing Office and the Financial Aid Office with my dilemma and tried to assure them that I was still in school...