Word: dilemna
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...minority dilemna rests in the ability to find a balance between integration and segregation, and contrary to Cohn's generalized stigmatizations, members of Sigma Alpha Mu seem to have an appreciation for this balance...
That also may very well be true; the ability of the press to cover the turmnoil in South Africa and the ease with which Americans can identify with the racial dilemna there makes the apartheid regime easy to target. But if the reasoning behind choosing South Africa to take a symbolic stand against illiberal regimes worldwide is its convenience as a target for humanitarian outrage, than clearly divestment from South Africa itself is not the clear, specific moral imperative divestment activists make...
Several doctors interviewed this week suggested that Baby Fae had little chance of survival as a result of this operation and suggested several alternatives which may have saved her life. In addition to the medical controversy, an ethical dilemna has developed as a result of Baby Fae, founded on the lack of government regulation and planning previous to the operation...
...Yale guys like to play dumb, don't you." Beth says, a certain twinkle in her eye, awaiting the predictable response. But for you, a Harvard guest at Yale, there is the moral dilemna, based on the olde rivalry. Should you play along, and be a Yalie, just for one night, or will you be true to your school? Be-wop, shaboom...
Another teacher who has spent 20 years in Cambridge said he had thought about leaving, "but you always go through the moral dilemna of abandoning a ship while it's sinking...