Word: dilemmas
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Doctors' Dilemma...
...that, the Shah's dilemma is mostly one of his own making. The unrest in Iran has its roots in his failure to permit the growth of a responsible opposition to his one-man rule. His commendable effort to modernize Iran by educating its people and raising their standard of living was imperiled from the start by his refusal to allow a greater measure of political expression. Ironically, the forces that the Shah set loose continue to pose the greatest challenge to his regime...
Taiwan's present dilemma really began in 1949, when Chiang Kai-shek and his central government in exile moved to Taipei. After Peking entered the Korean War in 1950, President Truman helped secure the island from Communist conquest by interposing the U.S. Seventh Fleet between Taiwan and the mainland-an act incidentally that also prevented the Nationalists from trying to reconquer China. American support, both military and economic, eventually encouraged the Kuomintang to enact many of the reforms it had failed to carry out while in power on the mainland. Today, Taiwan is one of the best...
...point in his four-day appeal, Bhutto asserted that "instead of making me face this humiliation, I wish they had done revolutionary justice to me," a euphemism for execution. But no matter how the court rules on Bhutto's appeal, his fate poses a dilemma for President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq, the army chief who heads the junta that overthrew Bhutto last year. As long as Bhutto remains alive, he is a rallying point for opponents of Zia's regime. But if the once respected leader is killed, Pakistan will be confronted by the opprobrium of Western governments...
...lines of the old Carole Lombard-William Powell comedy, My Man Godfrey (which is quoted in the film). But the movie's subject, a liaison between a bored Beverly Hills matron and a younger man, is too provocative to be entirely laughed away. Wagner deals with this dilemma by switching her tone from scene to scene, almost always without warning. Embarrassingly enough, the sentimental moments are far funnier than Wagner's wisecracks about Southern California mores. The suds are soon indistinguishable from the froth, 'and Moment by Moment be comes a tidal wave of inanity...