Word: problem
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...biggest problem, however, is that the faith of the American people in the experts has been badly shaken. People have learned, for one thing, that certified technical gospel is far from immortal. Medicine changes its mind about tonsillectomies that used to be routinely performed. Those dazzling phosphate detergents turn out to be anathema to the environment. Scarcely a week goes by without the credibility of one expert or another falling afoul of some spike of fresh news. (Just last week an array of nonprescription sedatives used by millions was linked, through the ingredient methapyrilene, to cancer.) Moreover, experts are constantly...
...petroleum continues to grow. Last year's momentary surplus brought on by increased output from the North Sea and Alaska has been more than wiped out by rising consumption as well as OPEC's cutbacks. Steadily growing consumption of gasoline is causing most of the demand problem. Nearly 40% of all oil used in the U.S. goes for gasoline, and even though the price has almost doubled since 1973, the nation's 142 million motorists are burning it in record amounts. Not only have over 20 million new drivers streamed onto highways since 1973, but so have...
Count Dracula has always been something of a romantic. Given his undead state and his all too literal bloodthirstiness, his problem has ever been to find a socially (not to say legally) acceptable way of expressing his sweeter side. It is the funny premise of this movie that it required the intervention of the U.S. (circa 1970-79) to make the count begin to look good, despite his obvious kinks, to a lady...
...culverts. These can speed up or slow down the water and disturb the salmon battling upstream each spring to spawn. Indeed, biologists say that there has already been a drop-off in the number of fish in streams intersecting the Haul Road. Gravel and dust can be another problem. Tossed onto the permafrost by car wheels, they cause the snow to melt early in the spring. Waterfowl then nest prematurely in these moist spots and lose their young to frost...
...good--at least for the lightweights--however, were the scales used for weigh-in. One rower stepped on the scale only to find to her horror that she weighed 132 (all rowers must weigh 130 or less). The problem was quickly rectified--she stepped off the scale and then on again, for a weight loss of five pounds...