Word: copes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other hand, the Organization of African Unity, which can agree on few things, has gone on record as supporting Nigerian sovereignty over Biafra. Its members, the national leaders of Black Africa, can only view the precedent of tribal breakaway with profound dismay, for each must cope with tribal divisions in his own country. "It was the Congo and Tshombe yesterday, and it is Nigeria and Ojukwu today," warns Gowon. "Who knows what African country will be the next victim...
...estimated to suffer from the severe, "classical" form of the ailment. Doctors have learned to control most victims' bleeding episodes with transfusions and intravenous injections. But the techniques involved have been complex, cumbersome and costly. Only recently has medical research advanced sufficiently to simplify the process and cope with the problems of supply...
...well as anyone: "People today are interested in action, not cliches; problem solving, not promise making; an active concern for the future, not a passive contentment with the past." The hallmark of the politicians who recognize these concerns is an intense conviction that state and local governments must cope with their own problems rather than allow them to go by default to Washington for consideration. The approach is essentially nonideological, even nonpolitical?and thus is appealing to the increasingly youthful, well-educated and independent U.S. electorate. To new voters, says Evans, "the traditional clatter of politics makes very little sense...
...Georgia Herrick: "I was trying to prove something to myself, a reaffirmation of the liberal beliefs I had been brought up under." It seems to me that usually this is the reason why a Negro dates a white, or the other way around. Few couples are ready to cope with the problems of interracial dating. They are, whether they admit it or not, bound by society's taboos, and these rules do not allow them the openness needed for a good relationship...
...dramatize their overwork and the limitations of radar tracking equipment no longer able to cope with the crowded sky, the newly unionized controllers began to play the game according to the book. They invoked long-avoided regulations requiring at least a three-mile separation between planes for safety (in recent months, aircraft had been allowed as close as two miles). One proposal to ease the jam included a temporary shutdown of 335 FAA-manned flight service stations and transfer of their 900 controllers to busier towers...