Word: problem
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mexico's Macho Mood," there is the all too familiar reference to illegal aliens from Mexico. If these people did not find employment north of the border, they would not come. So if we truly want to face up to the problem, we will search out and fine the employers...
Sarah Venable as Maddie, the buxom secretary to the committee who is the root of Parliament's moral problem and who seems to know every government official by his first name, is the centerpiece of the show in more than just a visual way. Stoppard starts this character out as an unembellished dumb broad, and about halfway through the show transforms her into a voice of the common people, instructing the MPs on their duties, telling them, "The people don't care about what you do on your own time--it's only the newspapers," and eventually writing the draft...
Committee members also recognized another potential problem that never arose--displacement of staff when the committees merged. Alberta Arthurs, the former dean of Radcliffe admissions and currently president of Chathan College in Pittsburgh. willingly transferred to the newly created position of dean of undergraduate affairs. L. Fred Jewett '57, former dean of Harvard admissions, became dean of the combined office...
...Western governments and banks by the end of 1977, according to the World Bank. Brazil alone, the second largest Third World debtor, owed $19.3 billion at the end of 1977. As John Maynard Keynes once apocryphally said, if you owe the bank 100 pounds sterling it's your problem, but if you owe the bank 100,000 pounds sterling, it's the bank's problem. Western policymakers cannot afford to neglect the needs of their bankers' debtors when formulating trade policy, or they may find themselves formulating international economic turmoil...
...companies--cost--may be decisive in the future of synthetic fuels. Cost estimates for liquefied coal have climbed from $7.50 per barrel of oil equivalent in 1973 to $20 in 1977, and they are still rising. Nevertheless, oil companies have pushed synthetic fuels as the solution to America's problem of dependence on OPEC. And President Carter's proposal for an $88 billion investment in synfuels shows that he swallowed the oil company line...