Word: problem
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mind that Bush's goal of reaching agreement in "six months or maybe a year" and finishing the reductions by 1992 sounds like a pipe dream. Never mind that the estimated $1 billion in potential savings doesn't measurably reduce the U.S. defense budget or redress the "burden-sharing" problem among the allies. Never mind even that British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl still disagree over the alliance's nuclear future...
...told him I wasn't interested," says Dona Violeta. "He became very nervous and explained to me that if La Prensa remained closed, Nicaragua would be accused of failing to meet the conditions in the peace plan. And I told him, 'There's a simple solution to that problem. Let us open without censorship...
...years since the Watergate scandal, repeated efforts at reform have failed because they do not reach the systemic problem. Public officials are now required to file endless financial-disclosure reports, limit the private contributions they accept and wait longer and longer periods of time before they are allowed to lobby their former colleagues. But disclosure works for Congress only if constituents have the opportunity to pore through the voluminous reports and then vote based on what they find there. This welter of regulations has done almost nothing to choke off the cash flow...
Even the activists admit, however, that removing all sex and gore from the media would make no more than a small dent in the teen crime problem. Much more fundamental changes in society are needed. Government at all levels should step up the battles against drugs, poverty and racism. Far more money should be poured into education, day-care and recreational opportunities for the young. Youngsters need more of their parents' time, and they need to know that society cares about them...
...applied to all the houses. But when the dean of the College reversed the decision in March, he announced his resolve to forge a consensus on a better plan to enforce diversity this fall. As well he should. Not wanting to live together is not the answer to the problem of pluralism...