Word: problem
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...years, the problem of infant mortality in America has been a case study of the failure of our health care system...
...sudden flight from public service highlights an already vexing problem. A score of people approached for the once coveted Pentagon job of Under Secretary for Acquisition have refused to submit to the nomination process. At the Department of Energy, five people have rejected offers to serve as the $80,700-a-year Assistant Secretary in charge of nuclear energy. "I'm having trouble persuading people with needed skills to join the Government," complains Energy Secretary James Watkins. "They might swallow the lower pay, but they balk when they learn ethics laws could bar them from returning to their old jobs...
...cable networks proliferate, many operators are limited in how many channels they can accommodate with outmoded transmission equipment. "The real problem is channel capacity," says Michael Luftman, a spokesman for ATC. Reason: many cable systems were built at least ten years ago, when the technology permitted room for only 36 channels. That capacity will grow to some 70 or more channels in the 1990s as operators around the country install new equipment. The advanced hardware will create more room for rivals on the same system and a wealth of new programming opportunities for everything from local news shows to solemn...
...little but advise Beijing to use caution, and it had only a few desultory comments about the historic handshake between Mikhail Gorbachev and Deng Xiaoping. Finding American officials who were even slightly uneasy about the freshly minted Sino-Soviet friendship was almost impossible. Was George Bush worried? "No problem," said the President. "A healthy development," said Secretary of State James Baker. Only Vice President Dan Quayle displayed a hint of wariness. Yes, he said, last week's comradeship was good news, but he added a sensible qualifier: "Provided that any new relationship harms neither our own interests nor those...
...despite the reassurances, the political summit may prove to be anything but "no problem." What really deserved welcome was less the talks inside the Great Hall of the People than the protests outside, in Tiananmen Square. Crackdown or not, the protests were the "healthy development...