Word: dilemmas
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...Black artists the American Dream has always presented a complicated dilemma: should one aim to be an artist, an American artist, or a Black artist' Scholars continue to argue for example, over whether Ralph Ellison's classic. Invisible Man, is primarily a novel about an artist in America or a novel about a Black man in America. When singer Diana Ross was invited to Harvard last month as an example of Black achievement a controversy broke out over whether she adequately reflects Black cultural values. A century later, the debate between Booker I Washington and W. E. B DuBois goies...
...defense depends on "immoral" deterrence? What about the moral implications of succumbing to the evil rule of a godless dictator? Could a Catholic President seriously take the oath of office to protect the U.S. from foreign attacks? Our bishops must not leave millions of Catholics in this moral dilemma. We have heard their objection to our defense system and are now awaiting realistic alternatives...
...Aristocrat," as used by Americans about Americans, may be the most abused word in American English. This could be the main dilemma facing the redoubtable chronicler of Britain's titled nobility, Debrett's Peerage, which has set out to publish a ten-volume series on the American aristocracy. Debrett's editor, Martin Stansfeld, an untitled Scot who attended Eton and Oxford and whose family "goes back to the Normans," explains that the series will concentrate on "the glittering star system of America's social leadership...
...like the Red Baron demonstrated a program that enables a personal computer to accept voice commands. Apple Computer rented Disneyland for an evening to entertain 12,000 of its most intimate customers, employees and friends. For the more serious, discussions were held on topics like "Surviving Success-an Industry Dilemma...
...primary cause of instability with current weapons systems is the disproportion between warheads and launchers...there is no effective or intellectually adequate solution to this problem except to seek to eliminate multiple warheads within a fixed time, say 10 years." The root of the problem is similar to the dilemma encountered by the imaginary video game player. If you face an enemy with fewer launchers (ships) than you have, but more warheads (missiles), then conceivably he can knock you out in a first strike. Therefore, in a crisis situation, you could be tempted to destroy your enemy's small number...