Word: problem
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...Washington was "the problem" when Reagan took office in 1981, it looks like a costly irrelevancy today. After almost nine years of the Reagan Revolution, Americans may wonder whether the Government -- from Congress to the White House, from the State Department to the Office of Management and Budget -- can govern at all anymore...
Even some Republicans are expressing concern about the paralysis. | Conservative analyst Kevin Phillips described the problem two weeks ago in the Washington Post as "a frightening inability to define and debate America's emerging problems." Last week's 190-point stock market tumble was the immediate result of economic developments, namely UAL's failure to obtain financing for its leveraged buyout. But Washington's glaring inability to control spending hardly inspires the confidence that markets need...
Jimmy Carter in 1976 and, far more stridently, Ronald Reagan in 1980 performed a valuable service by calling attention to the giant's weaknesses. But Reagan's approach, once he was elected, was fundamentally flawed. So is George Bush's. Government was not the problem. The problem was, and still is, that the country was being governed badly. The conservative complaint that only liberal elitists think Washington must actually do something is self- evidently silly. Of course, the Government must do something. That is why it exists: to act in ways that improve the lives of its citizens and their...
...Francisco's mostly unjustified arrogance toward its East Bay neighbor. The old cliches have been aired yet again about Giants fans partying on Chardonnay and quiche in Candlestick parking lots while A's adherents settle for beer and bratwurst at the Coliseum. San Franciscans sneer at the drug problem in "Cokeland," and last week Mayor Art Agnos took arrogance to new heights, initially declining to make the traditional World Series bet with his Oakland counterpart, Lionel Wilson, because "there's nothing in Oakland I want...
...Thus, when the U.S. demands Noriega's resignation, it steps into Panama's complex mix of race and class politics. "This is a battle that is much larger than Noriega," says a senior official of the P.R.D. "Bush's people say they have no quarrel with the military. The problem is that the old-line oligarchs would use Noriega's expulsion as a chance to take back what they lost. This is what makes this...