Word: problem
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...this point, Coddington says, both the federal government and the University have attacked the hazardous waste issue piecemeal. Coddington believes Harvard's "each tub on its own bottom" philosophy--giving each school policy autonomy--has prevented the formation of a University-wide policy. "We have not attacked the problem in a coordinated way," he says. Federal officials are equally frustrated. While the EPA, NRC and other agencies struggle to promulgate rules and regulations, jurisdictional disputes are likely to erupt. Some are optimistic that disposal problems will be resolved, but others are not. "It's pure anarchy," says one official...
...both sides, the difficulty is resolving the problem without giving the impression of backing down. At the White House, President Carter told congressional leaders only that the negotiations over the 2,600 to 2,800 Soviet troops had reached a delicate phase during which major decisions would have to be made by both sides. An Administration official later said that the Kremlin would have to take steps "to relieve, to alter the situation in a way favorable to the U.S." Just what Carter is willing to accept as "favorable" was a tightly kept secret...
...bulkhead problem was not a new one for the DC-9. McDonnell Douglas warned airlines three years ago that fatigue cracks had shown up in some early models of the plane. The manufacturers advised airlines to inspect the bulkheads more frequently or reinforce all of these early-model DC-9s with "doubler" pieces...
Lord Carrington still faces the problem of selling the British proposal to Patriotic Front Co-Leaders Robert Mugabe and Joshua Nkomo, who control 20,000 armed guerrillas inside Zimbabwe Rhodesia. At week's end, the Front leaders had refused to say whether they would accept any safeguards for the white minority. Indeed, one guerrilla spokesman waspishly branded Muzorewa's acceptance of the British plan as "an agreement between a master and puppet...
...winners, the problem of forming a government with a single-vote majority was compounded by the fact that the three non-socialist parties are deeply divided on the country's two main political issues: nuclear energy and taxes. The Conservatives support further construction of nuclear reactors, which the Center Party and half of the Liberal Party oppose. All three parties want to reduce Sweden's exorbitant income taxes, but cannot agree on how else to pay for Western Europe's most expensive welfare state. The most likely prospect seemed to be either another feeble minority government...