Word: problem
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...policy issue has consumed so much of Clinton's public time and attention, though in the larger context of this turbulent season, that is not saying much. Since January there have been two White Houses: the one that handles scandal and the one that handles everything else. The only problem with that survival strategy, as last week's vote made clear, is that there isn't much else. For all his shiny approval ratings, Clinton has been foiled time and again in moving anything through Congress, from imf funding and voluntary national standards for student testing to campaign-finance reform...
...Tiananmen Square, would be nowhere without the upper-middle-class intellectual elite. Feminism didn't start in the factory. It started in wood-paneled salons, spread to suburban living rooms, with their consciousness-raising sessions, and eventually ended up with Norma Rae. In fact, that trajectory is its biggest problem today--it remains suspect to those who have never ventured onto a college campus. A TIME/CNN poll shows what most people already suspect--that education more than anything else determines whether a woman defines herself as a feminist. Fifty-three percent of white, college-educated women living in cities embrace...
...that brings up another reason why the flightiness of contemporary feminism is a problem. Some would argue that if the women's movement were still useful, it would have something to say; it's dead because it has won. Some wags have coined a phrase for this: Duh Feminism. But there's nothing obvious about the movement's achievements. It's true that we now have a woman crafting America's foreign policy (Madeleine Albright), that a woman is deciding which Barbie dolls to produce (Jill Barad, CEO of Mattel) and that a woman (Catharine MacKinnon) pioneered the field...
...prior to the news of Asia's financial crisis, the number of white-collar suicides was quite high. According to the National Police Agency, suicides in Japan in 1996 totaled about 23,000, more than double the number of traffic fatalities. Meanwhile, the reluctance to admit there are indeed problems has seeped onto the economic bargaining table in the most recent round of American-Japanese talks surrounding the falling yen. The New York Times reported that the two nations' leaders have two different conceptions of what change is necessary for financial problem solving...
...with the Joneses. It swallowed NCR to get into computers, which was a disaster. But Kadlec says the TCI purchase simply extends the company in a natural direction -- allowing it to re-enter the lucrative local phone market that it once dominated. "AT&T has finally solved a strategic problem that brought down its last two CEOs," said Kadlec. Whatever happens, TCI stockholders ought to be happy today: Shares jumped another $4 to $42 on Wednesday's confirmation of the deal...