Word: dilemmas
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Virtually every young man faced the war dilemma," says Berkeley's Gitlin, who wrote a superb history, The Sixties. "It was not self-evident what was the right thing to do. For some it was to leave the country; for others, to be a conscientious objector, or seek an exemption by having children or working in some protected occupation, or by staying in school." For some, of course, the right thing to do was to go to Vietnam and serve...
...fact remains, however, that baseball owners, particularly those with no personalties to their team's communities, will always be interested in profit margins. Lackluster teams in slow markets are at risk whenever their owners get itchy feet. Seattle may be facing the dilemma now, but other small cities may be at risk tomorrow...
Such accounts by frightened returnees have done nothing to move the Bush Administration to reconsider its plan to ship home more than 10,000 Haitian boat people from Guantanamo. The dilemma for Washington remains acute: Are these people merely looking for a better life, or genuinely in danger of persecution...
While Straight Out of Brooklyn was not a box-office smash, it is more realistic than New Jack City and more moving than Boyz in the Hood. The movie avoids the glamour of the drug culture and instead focuses on the dilemma facing ambitious Black youths...
...that poses a dilemma typical of the ethical, legal and social issues raised by recent breakthroughs in genetics. Because no cure for Huntington's exists, a positive test result is like a death sentence. Though it cannot foretell when the first symptoms will appear or how long the victim will suffer, the outcome is certain. On the other hand, a negative result can dispel the cloud of anxiety that hangs over every member of a Huntington's family. Before advising people to take the test, Wexler carefully probes each person's attitude and outlook. "Some people can cope very well...