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Word: problem (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...problem with this argument is that if corporations didn't spend their money on food, they would spend it elsewhere--by buying more products, employing more workers or, better yet, investing in new productive capacity...

Author: By John L. Larew, | Title: Wall Street's Food Stamps | 11/20/1989 | See Source »

WHRB officials said yesterday that they have decided to take the weekly rap music show "Streetbeat" off the air because the show represents a security problem for the station and its members...

Author: By Philip M. Rubin, | Title: WHRB Pulls Program Off Air | 11/20/1989 | See Source »

...admirable citizen. Indeed, his second amorous campaign -- to bed a virtuous young wife, Madame de Tourvel (Meg Tilly) -- is not presented as idle and amoral womanizing but as proof of his capacity for authentic emotion. Too bad he has what we now are fond of calling "an intimacy problem," and, as a result, this affair and ultimately his life come to a bad and premature...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Festive Film Fare for Thanksgiving: Valmont | 11/20/1989 | See Source »

...have hunting, ball games and bars -- plenty of opportunities to practice the hearty, necessary rituals of male bonding. Feminist theory and common sense tell us that women have a similar need to renew gender loyalties. Their problem, traditionally, has been finding suitable places and occasions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Festive Film Fare for Thanksgiving: Steel Magnolias | 11/20/1989 | See Source »

...movie wants to be a cartoon. For proof, check out 1989's five top hits: Batman; Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade; Lethal Weapon 2; Honey, I Shrunk the Kids; Ghostbusters II. They all aspire to the freedom of form and story that any animated film takes for granted. Problem is, real life gets in the way. Location shooting is at the whim of weather; special effects can look chintzy onscreen. And actors! They cost the moon, and their bodies aren't elastic enough to perform the comic contortions that Daffy Duck can give you with the wave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Festive Film Fare for Thanksgiving | 11/20/1989 | See Source »

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