There is a predicament between cost, choice, and other consumer preferences.
Unlike Nixon, however, Mr Aitken had at least two opportunities to get out of his predicament at little cost.
In an article in The New Yorker, James Surowiecki compared the Jets' Sanchez predicament to other sunk costs in which people "throw good money after bad" at government or business projects.
While the findings were consistent with the last few years of the census, advocates say it's simply more evidence that federal funding for domestic violence services is at an unacceptably low level -- a predicament with a devastating human cost.
If growth evaporates, a downgrade would be a certainty, raising debt costs even more.Such predicaments are not uncommon, but Brazil's monetary problems are.
Cost-effective mitigation of Houston's air pollution predicament requires policy makers to set priorities among literally thousands of airborne compounds, and to make difficult trade-offs between the benefits of reducing risks to human health, on one hand, and the costs of controlling airborne emissions, on the other.
He argued that because of their bad lending decisions, bankers shared the blame for Greece's predicament and should also share in the cost.
But the price tag for Europe will be immeasurably higher if Middle Eastern predicament reaches further into Turkey, not just in extra costs but, as in the 1990s, perhaps also in Turkish Kurd refugee numbers as well.
Hawaii tells religious employers in this predicament to point staff to alternative low-cost providers.That said, it would be naive to expect such a compromise to stifle all Republican complaints.
Water authorities often face the predicament of dealing with decreasing raw water quality, the high costs of new technologies, water filtration systems that do not completely remove all potentially pathogenic organisms, and increased public demand for safe water.
