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Hence Lars-Goren's dilemma: how to work for a presumed good (the liberation of his homeland) while being energetically assisted by the archetype of evil. This problem leads to further questions, most of them posed by Bishop Brask, an unscrupulous and despairing Swedish prelate. Could it be that "every thing's the work of the Devil"? What if "God himself is a Devil's lie"? Is the term might makes right "profoundly true? Suppose that there is in fact no good in the world except that which survives. " How is it possible to act according...
Palmieri said the refugee dilemma is a "mirror reflection" of the world-wide economic crisis that forces each country to worry about self-preservation...
Still, cutting even $15 billion out of the totals devised by Budget Director James Mclntyre will be an extremely painful process. Says one policymaker: "The dilemma is that defense costs are going to go higher than even the budget now states. So where are we left to cut? In state and local finances, the poor and the old, the disadvantaged. It's nothing we enjoy doing...
...believed to have ties among both the deposed royal family and the frontier tribes, had included non-Marxists in his government. Knowing that many of the Cabinet members were bitter political enemies, some Western observers in Kabul concluded that the mix was probably unworkable. "Karmal's dilemma is unique," said a diplomat at the time. "To win the people's trust he must distance himself from Moscow. But such a move would be political suicide. The Russians would not stand...
...inflation. But to Wenglowski, the danger now is that surging inflation will keep pushing people into higher and higher tax brackets, draining the private economy of funds for wealth-and job-creating investment. That in turn crimps productivity and gives yet another source of upward momentum to inflation. The dilemma, of course, is that cutting taxes to stimulate investment simply balloons the deficit, which also tends to nudge up inflation. Said Tax Expert Pechman: "Unless expenditures are cut, there is simply no room in the budget for a tax cut now for another five years...