Word: dilemmas
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...Israelis also find themselves in a difficult dilemma. Their attempt to deal a military blow to the P.L.O. may not bring a political solution to the aspirations of 4 million Palestinians any closer. If Israel annihilates the battle-hardened veterans of the P.L.O. by storming Beirut, it will incur the wrath of Washington but fail to extinguish the spirit of Palestinian nationalism. Yet if the Israelis withdraw from Beirut and grant the P.L.O. a face-saving retreat, they will forfeit the psychological benefits of the crushing victory that their government wanted as the main justification for the invasion...
...becomes apparent, vaguely, that the action consists of Claude's dilemma over what to do about getting drafted while various other characters worry about getting laid. But the dialogue is so sparse and cryptic that it's not clear until the final scene that Claude had been torn all along between conforming and resisting, rather than merely trying to decide how best to evade Uncle Sam. When he marches off to Southeast Asia, presumably to die for an empty cause, confusion overshadows the intended irony. Lost also are the characterizations of several of the more prominent female roles, especially those...
...relents a bit. "We have to save the idea before we save Beirut. Beirut is not the capital of our idea." Darwish is 40. He has been a refugee four times and has been thrown in jail. "If the Palestinians find a homeland, they may discover the same dilemma as the Jews. The Jews were great creators in the abstract. Now only their army is great. Israel is the grave of Jewish greatness...
Ultimately, the solution to the nation's health-care woes must come from Washington, which alone has the power to deal with a dilemma that far transcends individual states or health organizations. Congress, however, has been unable to agree on a plan of attack. In 1978, the legislators rejected a cost-containment drive led by former Health Education and Welfare Secretary Joseph Califano. More recently, President Reagan himself campaigned on promises to curb health-care costs by 1982, but his Administration still has not produced a comprehensive program...
Brantigan, who has occasionally taken propranolol to calm himself before delivering a speech, admits that his study poses an ethical dilemma. Propranolol is strong stuff. It belongs to a class of drugs known as beta blockers, which interfere with the nervous stimulation of the cardiovascular system (by blocking "beta receptors" on cells). Though widely used to treat high blood pressure, severe chest pain (angina) and to prevent second heart attacks, beta blockers can be dangerous for people with asthma, hay fever and some types of diabetes and heart conditions. "It would worry me considerably if propranolol were being taken...