Word: problem
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Johnson incident illustrates a serious problem within PBHA: the evident tendency of the organization's full-time staff, along with some students, to use PBHA as a vehicle for advancing their own agenda...
...problem arises from the strong authority exercised over PBHA by the non-students. According to some PBHA members, the organization's paid professional staff doesn't give enough weight to the concerns of student members. Perhaps this is because Johnson began only this semester to hold regular formal meetings with student coordinators. Or maybe it is because undergraduates do not even control the funds that pay the the professional staffers--Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57 does...
...problem is that I believe everything I read now. This was never a problem before...
...sure, some scientists reluctantly allow that Rifkin does ask important questions about the ethical, economic and social implications of the new technologies, as indeed he does. The problem is that Rifkin frequently presents his case in such a shrill and occasionally unscrupulous manner that in the debates he hopes to encourage, fear and anger frequently replace information and reasoned judgment. As a result, the message is too easily discarded with the messenger. Says W. French Anderson, a gene-therapy researcher at the National Institutes of Health (and a Rifkin target): "In private, he and I agree almost exactly. The difference...
...throughout this period, there were constant, escalating reminders of how much trouble Gorbachev faced at home: ethnic unrest, secessionism, economic deterioration, labor strife, an emboldened political opposition. When Eduard Shevardnadze visited the U.S. in September, he seemed preoccupied with domestic issues, especially the Soviet Union's problem with nationalities. A surprising and revealing addition to his entourage was Nikolai Shmelev, an economist who specializes in dire predictions and drastic prescriptions for the Soviet economy...