Word: problem
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...defends himself against charges that his brief tenure has been short on results and vows to quiet skeptics with an upcoming series of hard-hitting speeches. "I'm more concerned with solutions than criticism," he says. "Has ((Treasury Secretary Nicholas)) Brady solved the budget crisis yet? Has the drug problem disappeared...
Meanwhile, the problem of Western euphoria over Gorbachev is complicated by Moscow's having been particularly clever in its understanding of the public relations value of unilateral announcements -- something the West has yet to learn. When the Soviets make unilateral announcements, Moscow reaps a tremendous p.r. benefit, and I'm left with the reality -- continued huge Soviet military capabilities. It's difficult to get the public to realize that unilateral pronouncements uncodified by treaty are easy to turn around, as are intentions generally. I'm routinely criticized for a supposedly overly simplistic insistence on assessing capabilities rather than intentions. Well...
...problem is that the result of a negotiation might be different. We could be railroaded into something we don't want to do, which is to wipe out all nuclear weapons in Europe, the so-called third zero...
...then Interior Secretary Donald Hodel. The resulting report was a muddled exercise in self- contradiction. Its authors confirmed that the ecological results of natural burning are good. But the report contended that "in some cases the social and economic effects ((of natural fires)) may be unacceptable." Translation: the main problem with the fires was not what they did to plant and animal life but what they did to the tourist business...
...President proposes constructing more federal lockups, but the real problem is state and local building. -- Congress admits its new ethics rules are discouraging people from taking federal office -- and the "ethics monster" turns on Congress itself. -- A paradox for Western boosterism: Denver voters approve a mammoth modern airport, but Seattle citizens put limits on downtown...