Word: dilemmas
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...dilemma that had been with him since puberty, except that during high school conditions had been kinder to him. A number of women had been involved in student political organizations he worked in, and he had spent enough time with a few of the women to forget his awkwardness. But each time his hopes ended in misunderstanding. He or the woman would express feelings that the other was not ready for, and things would fall apart. When Walter left high school he was cocky in his academic prowess, but his dealings with women were stymied by his nervousness...
...Storey's own gift for creating character and scene. Storey's style is unobtrusive; but the sense of reality which eludes Colin is all about him, in Storey's precise depiction of the fictional world he inhabits. The effects in Saville are rarely obvious; our passport into Colin's dilemma is understatement and the slow accumulation of detail. Storey uses strings of adjectives almost lovingly. Writing of Colin's mother, he says: "It was as if her life had flooded out, secretly, without their knowledge, and she some helpless agent, watching this dissolution with a hidden rage, half-apologetic, half...
...early part of the next century, when declining births and increasing longevity are expected to shift the ratio of active workers to retired ones from 3 to 1 at present to 2 to 1, putting new pressures on the system. But that will be another generation's dilemma...
...prices. Carter is willing to seriously consider such an idea, as are the Europeans, but only after agreements are hammered out in advance on how to stabilize the price of each commodity. In contrast, the developing countries want the fund set up before the mechanics are worked out. The dilemma will be just one of the problems that Jimmy Carter and his peers will struggle with at the summit...
This incessant invasion presents the U.S. with a basic dilemma. A nation of immigrants is reluctant to reject other immigrants, particularly those who want to get ahead in the best American tradition. Few come for a handout; they are anxious to make a living. An illegal alien who is currently employed as an industrial painter in Brooklyn used to live on a South Pacific island where he dreamed of the American paradise of hard work. "It is the obsession of every islander," he says, "to come and be rewarded for what he does"-a dream shared round the world...