Word: dilemmas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...says Reporter-Researcher Denise Worrell, "how can you choose between your own paycheck and your grandfather's Social Security payment?" Says Washington Correspondent Jeanne Saddler, who interviewed top Administration officials, including Commissioner of Social Security John A. Svahn: "Most people have never understood how the system works. The dilemma the Government faces is finding a way to keep the commitments it has made to the people." Neil MacNeil, who has covered Congress for TIME for 24 years, remembers all too well the way Congressmen used to brag about how they once honored those commitments. But political cynicism aside, TIME...
...solution to Social Security's double dilemma-of an immediate cash crisis and the threat of a long-range demographic disaster-is unlikely to come from any single approach. What is needed is a combination of steps: some immediate limitation on COLAS, some intermediate move to prevent inflation from pushing up benefits faster than the rise in wages and payroll taxes, some long-range measures to raise the retirement age and keep the formula for calculating benefits from straining the resources of society...
...applaud the U.S. Catholic leadership for the courageous stand it has taken against nuclear weapons. The position of the Catholic bishops only aggravates my shame over the bishops of the United Methodist Church, who either do not see the moral dilemma of the American Christian regarding nuclear weapons or are so cowardly that they refuse to speak...
HIID has faced this type of dilemma in the past and will inevitably encounter it again. In the early 1970s for example, the Institute" as asked by the Korean Development Institute (KDI) to work on a project that amounted to giving policy advice to the government Korea has had considerable success in promoting both absolute and relative growth, Roemer says. This in turn has led to increased investment and lower unemployment. But there is no political pluralism to speak of in Korea: most opposition leaders are in jail...
...final responsibility for the foreign policy dilemma rests, of course, with the President, who to date has limited himself to enunciating broad policy principles and establishing friendly personal relations with foreign leaders. Asked to enumerate U.S. diplomatic successes, Reagan invariably mentions the stream of visiting heads of government and state to whom he has played gracious host. Queen Beatrix of The Netherlands was the latest. Reagan welcomed her last week at a White House ceremony featuring a review of a new fife-and-drum corps dressed in white wigs and red coats...