Word: problem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...advancement than have been offered in the past weeks, the only possible influence that one can draw from last night's procrastination is that the Team is afraid of an adverse vote in the Council. For if the Team, and the sub-committee of the Council which investigated the problem, are convinced that the case for advancement is watertight, what possible reason is there for temporizing until next year, unless it be that the Team is afraid to run the gamut of the Council vote...
...spring morning that seniors of high standing, "supervised and paid", would prove more valuable to the Yardlings than the present advisers who are widely admitted to be inadequate. But although no one can deny the almost criminal negligence that the officials of Harvard have bestowed on the problem and their utter failure to move toward a solution, no matter how many voices have cried out in protest, it does not follow at all that seniors would be any more capable to solve Freshman problems than the men who are supposed to shoulder that task...
...surprise" was handed Admiral Hepburn readymade. He was to come upon the Islands like the admiral of an enemy fleet who had achieved a surprise, catching them while the U. S. Fleet was theoretically in California ports. Time-eight days-was the essence of the problem. If the Island's defense force of small vessels, 400 planes, 20,000 soldiers and coast defense guns, all concentrated on Oahu, could hold off the attackers for eight days, the U. S. Fleet would have time to arrive from the continent. If the attackers could land troops, capture the island of Oahu...
With all the stories in the world to choose from, which story would a shrewd cinema producer pick to coincide with the coronation of a King of England? This was one problem which last year faced Warner Brothers' Associate Executive in Charge of Production Hal Wallis. For a cinema producer, problems never come singly. Another and more difficult riddle for Producer Wallis was this: what were the best roles in which to cast two 12-year-old identical twins who looked so much alike that their mother could scarcely tell them apart? One test of a cinema producer...
...Douglas' idea of segregating the underwriting and merchandising functions of investment banking, Banker Hall cited SEC itself on the somewhat analogous problem of dealer-broker segregation, SEC having admitted in a report to Congress that it did not know enough about the subject to launch a broad reform program...