Word: dilemmas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Playón, that was recently discovered to be a dumping ground for victims of the right-wing death squads. The bodies were left there to be consumed by vultures. Another worker, a cane cutter, reflected both the hope and the despair of El Salvador's enduring dilemma. "We think our vote will be important," he declared, "but who in hell knows what's going to happen...
...clean of all hope, feeling, self. Although it has plenty of impact, Ticket is often too busy being outraged to bother with niceties of characterization and plot. (Just how does David become converted? At what point does he snap out of it?) And so it ignores the central dilemma: that kidnaping an adult, however pure the motive or dear the victim, is against the law. Like a strident TV-news exposé, Ticket aims for the jugular instead of the mind-Geraldo Rivera moviemaking...
...domesticate the cat or did Tabby decide to share life with us? It is, it must be admitted, an intriguing, unanswered dilemma. Ours is not the first age to wrestle with that issue. Some Egyptians, for instance, reluctant to regard their cats as mundane animals, buried them with great ceremony. In 1888 a bumbling farmer dug up an ancient Egyptian cat necropolis at Beni Hasan. The cemetery contained thousands of mummified cats that had been interred, sometimes with embalmed mice for afterworld meals. Enterprising workers unwrapped the cats and sent a consignment of 19 tons of bones to England...
...government must recognize that the solution to the El Salvador dilemma requires independent negotiations among the Salvadorans themselves, he said...
...Dilemma of Nuclear Doctrine