Word: dilemmas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Shortly before Thanksgiving last year I decided to clean out my attic, and reluctantly agreed that I should dispose of my collection of 42 years of TIME magazines. But after I mentioned to a friend the dilemma of how to dispose of them, she requested the issues for her children's birth dates. Her mother then suggested that others might want to avail themselves of the same opportunity...
When Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.) marched proudly through the Kennedy School of Government and Sanders Theater on Tuesday, he accused President Carter of bungling the United States' foreign policy in Iran and Afghanistan and demanded that Carter speak out on the dual dilemma in the Near East...
Searching for an answer to his dilemma, Kennedy canceled his scheduled campaign trip to New England to devote his time to a major speech to be delivered this week. It was to be an overall attack on Carter's foreign and domestic policies. He hopes that a dramatic, sharply focused address, in contrast to his more rambling efforts on the stump, will revive his fading chances in the New England states. If he fails to win in his native region, he plans to withdraw from the race...
...Next year they will represent 76.6%. Out of the $52 billion in new spending in next year's budget, 66% goes to uncontrollables, 28% to defense, 2% to energy and 4% to all the rest. Says W. Bowman Cutter, executive associate budget director: "The uncontrollables pose a real dilemma. We are going to have to do something about their rate of increase...
...fact is that they do. So the government faces a dilemma. If it relies exclusively on its conventional fiscal and monetary tools, it can slow down an inherited inflation only at very great cost in terms of unemployment, lost output, and lost real income. That is how the "old-fashioned medicine" works...