Word: dilemmas
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...suppress the story, pleading national security. His rationale: since Moscow still had not got wind of Jennifer, Glomar Explorer this summer would return in good weather to attempt to raise the rest of the submarine, and secrecy was needed to protect the operation. All this posed a sharp dilemma for editors (see THE PRESS...
Colby's request immediately created a dilemma for the newsmen. Each organization had to decide whether to withhold knowledge from the public of a secret Government operation or publish a story that, as Colby argued, might damage the nation's defenses. In short, the press was face to face with an old question: When does the right of the people to know end and the need to protect national security begin...
...Irksome Dilemma. The huge shortfall was aggravated by the global recession, which slowed the growth of world trade. Some economists argue that the numbers are no cause for alarm contending that the U.S. will attract more foreign capital when its economy perks up. Nonetheless, the nagging, $10-per-bbl. question remains: How fast can an economy recover when it is forced to send abroad a large share of its income to pay its oil bills...
Alceste's personal dilemma is peculiarly ironic. Here is a man who has an almost physical revulsion from all that society stands for, yet he is desperately in love with a girl who is society's darling. Célimène (Diana Rigg) is a widow of 20, a teasing, witchy, worldly enchantress. She gossips maliciously, she lies, she keeps two other lovers on the string. Yet until she finally rejects him, the puritan Alceste is in tormented thrall to this pagan Lilith...
There is, however, a more basic explanation for the unenthusiastic reaction to Israel's dilemma. Young Jews have recently displayed ambivalence about the nature and extend of their commitment, in terms in time, energy and money, to Israel. While the roots of this ambivalence go beyond the current political issues at stake in the Middle East, the triggering factor in this case has undoubtedly been the reemergence of the Palestinian problem...