Word: problem
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...brevity of his thoughts lies the collection's most serious problem. Sometimes attacking two or more subjects in one piece, Strout has little chance to develop his thoughts from week to week. He states a set of principles, then ignores them time and again. In Carroll Kilpatrick's introduction, in Strout's concluding address to the National Press Club, and in several key essays between, a preference emerges for a parliamentary system like Canada's and for a diminished role for our overworked and usually underqualified presidents...
...Kemp-Roth proposal is an old-style approach (across-the-board tax cuts) and does not pinpoint the problem areas of our economy," he told the crowd of more than 175 people...
Councilor Patrick F. McDonough, who sponsored the motion to turn the issue over to the laws and ordinance subcommittee of the Council, said the move "gives us at least a couple of weeks to consider what is a very complicated problem...
With three cases already pending which challenge the legality of the order, the students' wait-and-see attitude seems both sensible and correct. While the courts consider the problem, Harvard's International Office should continue to advise Iranian students about the documents they may need to satisfy the order. The choice however, as University officials rightly point out, should be left to individual students...
This is why Veterans Day felt so uncomfortable this time around. We all realize how much its meaning has been undermined by our recent military experiences, and we don't know how to deal with the discrepancy. But deal with it we must, for a problem that is not confronted openly and candidly will slowly eat away at our country's moral fiber and national spirit. After you've thought about our earlier wars, in which we performed so well, think about Vietnam and the people who fought and suffered and died while the American public strained to find...