Word: problem
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gasoline crunch that frightens me but rather the lack of dignity and strength that Americans have been displaying as we face the problem...
...greatly enjoyed your article on procrastination [June 10. 1974]. It was a fine in-depth analysis of a problem we Americans must learn to deal with. I was going to write you somewhat earlier, but I have been extremely busy of late...
...sell and service electronic equipment, has winkled out enough economic development grants from Washington to refurbish his downtown. With some relish he tells about his chess game against the feds. Washington at first demanded that contractors on two projects have at least 10% minority employment on each job-a problem in Newark because the city's 47,000 population is only 1.4% black. Baker persuaded the feds that for the purposes of affirmative action they consider the two projects one, then went to a larger city to hire a minority-owned contracting firm for one development...
...Jamaican nationalists, however, believe the Rastas are lazy, drugged-out, and beguiled by illusions verging on mass hysteria. In fact, one Jamaican psychologist addressed an international psychology conference about the problem of the culture they find so bizarre. The Rastas are a national disgrace in the eyes of middle-class Jamaicans. They believe the Rastas are threatening their dream of a unified Jamaica. The Rastas, on the other hand, refuse to participate in politics. They believe that the Jamaican elites must repay them for 400 years of slavery, and send them back to Ethiopia. Harvard's Orlando Patterson, professor...
...Boston manages to complete a palace of culture or two, its next problem will be to find people to fill the seats. Opening the box office windows is not enough. Theater, dance, opera and musical companies throughout the country are rapidly discovering that survival means subscriptions. Patrons who will pay for four or five performances well in advance mean, quite literally, money in the bank, and a performing group has the security of knowing that it will have an audience for experimental works, not just Pavarotti or Horowitz. Admits Ruth Hider, New York City Opera director of operations: "We couldn...