Fernao was glad he didn't have to make such an unpleasant choice himself.

Since the savings and loan mess developed a decade ago, the issues the committee has dealt with have mostly involved unpleasant choices.

But it's an unpleasant choice to have to make.

It is an unpleasant choice, to be sure, but most people say they would pick the second option.

Instead he made the key play of a low club, giving West an unpleasant choice.

Indeed, as a recent study suggests, the unpleasant choice facing many of the organizations is to lower costs or raise prices and lose members.

The state has already gone through its $600 million emergency savings, a kind of rainy day fund, forcing the governor to make some unpleasant choices.

We're going to have to make some hard and unpleasant choices here,' Preceptor darellon said.

Any mediator, she warns, faces "a range of unpleasant choices."

That kind of friction, he added, will force "unpleasant choices" in the near future.