Word: dilemmas
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...deadlock. But it should also be noted that Carter's efforts were not simply a product of his missionary zeal; it is clear that the primary U.S. interest in the Middle East is to establish peace. With the Camp David accords, Carter postponed for some time to come the dilemma of what position the U.S. would take in a full scale Arab-Israeli war--a dilemma that would force the U.S. to make impossible choices, and that might well produce severe divisiveness at home...
...regarded as U.N. highhandedness. The reasons given for the turnaround on the U.N. plan convinced no one. Pretoria, it was now clear, was not about to let SWAPO come to power, even in free elections. That means a long-term military commitment by South Africa in Namibia?and a dilemma for the U.S. and Britain, who will face pressure to punish South Africa's recalcitrance with economic sanctions. British private investment in South Africa totals $10 billion, while trade amounts to $3 billion. The U.S. has more than $2 billion in trade and $1.5 billion in private investment...
Policymakers in Washington and other Western capitals are in as excruciating a dilemma as Amin. Do they offer aid to prop up a shaky regime ?which then might drop in the Russians' lap? Or let the government collapse?and risk a widening guerrilla war in an unstable region? Moscow, which has waited patiently since the time of the czars to consolidate its hold, faces no such agonizing choice...
...Coco, a 19-year-old who still lives with his suffocating parents in the antiseptic, concrete high-rises of The Bronx. Should Stony continue the family tradition and become a construction worker? Or should he follow his desires and become a white-collar counselor to infirm children? A simple dilemma, but Bloodbrothers takes forever to resolve it. There is so much clutter in this movie that it is often difficult to find Stony amidst the underbrush...
...awareness of government financial strains and popular resistance to increased taxes has focused attention on the penetrating analysis of the state's budgetary dilemma contained in James O'Connor's The Fiscal Crisis of the State. O'Connor's 1973 book clearly analyzes the political dynamics of state budget growth and its antithesis, popular resistance to burgeoning tax costs...