Word: problem
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most urgent problem is the plight of at least 200,000 people who have fled from the righting. Some have escaped into the countryside. But most have flocked into refugee centers in the capital, straining the capacity of church and charitable organizations beyond the breaking point...
...their parliamentary squabbling, Ecevit and Demirel are divided more by personal animosity than by ideology. Demirel, by profession an engineer, generally favors free-enterprise solutions. Ecevit, a poet and the son of a university professor, leans toward mildly socialist ones. Turkey's real problem, though, is that neither party is strong enough to govern effectively. Still, Ecevit sounded optimistic about his own political future and that of his strategically important country in an interview with TIME Rome Bureau Chief Wilton Wynn...
Mary falls in love regularly, breaks up regularly and then takes to bed in deep depression, pulling the covers over her head and eating chocolates for several days. She has twice tried suicide. Mary's problem: she is extremely sensitive to rejection and lashes out at lovers for the smallest slight. That may not strike many doctors as a specific medical ailment. But Manhattan Psychiatrist Donald Klein diagnoses Mary's condition as a typical case of hysteroid dysphoria, a.k.a. "lovesickness." What's more, Klein thinks he has a cure...
...cause or the chief contributing factor in a large number of accidents. To date those accidents have involved at least 41 deaths, about 60 injuries and hundreds of incidents of property damage. Over the six-year period the company tried, unsuccessfully, to correct the faults. The primary and recurring problem: blowouts and other failures following a separation of the tread from the steel-belted inner layer...
...have a problem in getting a fair return on buildings we have leased," Michael F. Brewer, assistant vice president for government and community affairs, said last week. He added that University real estate officials are trying to find a new home for the store...