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...dilemma: how to cut handouts but not hurt the truly needy...
...Perhaps we are beholding yet another break in the chain that links the child to the home." Brown-bag lunches might not meet federal nutrition standards, he observed, "but I do know that those brown bags and those lunch pails symbolized parental love and responsibility." Nonetheless, Mathias, echoing the dilemma that Congress faced, voted with the majority to override Ford's veto. As he explained: "No humane person wants to see one single child in America go hungry...
Eager as the council is to crack down on excessive outside work--as it should, in the interests of students who pay $10,000 to see top professors in action--its members realize they can not empower officials to pry into professors' personal schedules. That realization poses a dilemma, though. As several professors have noted, the very handful of people the new guidelines are aimed at are the ones least likely to disclose the full extent of their outside involvement...
...This is the dilemma that faces Broadway artists and entrepreneurs. The Shuberts and Nederlanders have demonstrated that show business can make money. The R.S.C., and to a lesser extent artists on Broadway and off, prove that it can make vital theater. The challenge ahead is to reconcile these opposites, and to do it on Broadway. "Broadway at its best gives the best people the resources to do their best," says Prince. The Fabulous Invalid cannot be killed off by an overdose of mediocrity; it can be rehabilitated by frequent injections of imagination and daring. As long as someone...
Doctor Joseph Davie was caught in a dilemma. Davie, head of the microbiology and immunology department at Washington University's School of Medicine in St. Louis, was coordinating a joint effort among 15 university laboratories to create hybridomas, cells that produce the protein antibodies that attack viruses and bacteria. He wanted to be sure that any discoveries made in the labs could swiftly be applied in practical medicine. He also hoped to find more money so the project could continue its basic research...