Word: problem
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Even before the Iranian revolution, the problem of oil supply and demand was a difficult one for the importing countries. There was just no way known to us to cover demand in the mid-1980s from supplies that would be physically, not to mention politically, available...
What do you do with a problem that will affect the whole world economy? There is nothing I would like more than to be proved wrong, but I believe we are in a rat race against increasing crude and product prices of a massive order. The impact could be much more serious than any 5% supply shortage...
Henry Kissinger, former Secretary of State, lecturing in Mexico City: "No Communist country has solved the problem of succession...
...more like the BBC and public television. I chuckle because I think it's very hypocritical. If they honestly stand by their television critic and want better shows, why are they on the very same page printing a list of the top ten? The problem is that we have to get back to the way the business used to be. The moment we start getting back, everybody is going to be a lot happier...
...that the movie fails to engage us? There is the well-realized meeting between two curious and disparate minds. Added to this is a sweet courtship and real marriage between Field and a gas station attendant (Beau Bridges), a man with few brains but good, patient instincts. The problem lies in story development. There is something dreadfully predictable about the way the tale moves. When Norma Rae finally causes all the machines in the mill to be stopped through the sheer force of her belief in justice, our response is to wonder why it took so long for the film...