Word: dilemmas
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...life, the vengeful justice of the Old Testament, yet more than justice would have been served if George Jackson had gone to the gas chamber--if, in fact, justice would have been served by his execution. His death at the hands of due process would have resolved the dilemma with which his life confronted the prison system...
...Jobs. Hoover's feud with William C. Sullivan, the former No. 3 man at the bureau, is a measure of the Administration's dilemma. At 59, Sullivan is a 30-year veteran of the bureau with an impressive reputation among intelligence officers here and abroad...
Unhappily, as Sinologist Doak Barnett points out in his book, A New U.S. Policy Toward China, Washington faces a dilemma. "Every possible course of action," writes Barnett, "involves some undesirable costs and risks." There is, in short, no easy solution...
...marriage perplexes Charley, but the assault on his codes brings intolerable pain. He is incapable of philandering-one antidote for marriage-poisoning urged on him. He is equally incapable of ricocheting from marriage to divorce to marriage to divorce. This is what makes the play, and its dilemma, undeviatingly honest. Anderson offers a final comfort that is small, but not cold: the heart is the only broken instrument that works...
...flushings become the metropolitan sanitary district's Sisyphean task; the engineers must not only treat the ceaseless torrents of raw sewage but also find some place to put the day's residues-and space for such byproducts is limited. Yet Chicago now seems to have solved the dilemma with such practical and ecological wisdom that its program may well become a model for other cities while incidentally and fortuitously reclaiming some of the U.S.'s most ravaged land...