Word: problems
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like the other U.S. and foreign newsmen assigned to cover the Bogota Conference, Dozier had not bargained for an insurrection to boot. Once it was under way, however, he-and they-faced the familiar reporter's problem of how to get their copy out on a big, fast-breaking story in which national security was (or was thought to be) involved...
Thus Pollster Gallup's problem is: 1) to work out the proportions of the barrel, i.e., determine the true social, political and economic complexion of the U.S. people; 2) choose his handful (people to be interviewed) accordingly; 3) make sure that the two correspond exactly...
Conant compared the United States and Russia as to their methods of handling human problems and concluded that "our problem is to see that these two worlds compete on an ideological basis under conditions at least approaching peace...
...Crimson has much tough cat gut to out-batter during the next three weeks. No one is particularly worried about Brown this afternoon, but Cornell this Saturday poses a bigger problem. The veteran-studded Cayugans boast national reputations in their top men and have depth and prowess in their reserves. Along with Yale and Princeton who usher out the season in the middle of May, they will have history and the guesses of ouija specialists on their side when they cock their racquets for the Crimson, and it is difficult to tell whether the team's and Barnaby's optimism...
Therefore, America's problem in this respect will always be to maintain a correct balance between the two extremes. To achieve this desirable equilibrium, however, the present Central Intelligence Agency must be given much more power and independence than it has at the present time. Congressional investigations which will bathe the whole system in the killing light of publicity must be avoided. Instead, the Intelligence services and the State Department must quietly and efficiently combine to clean up and rebuild the faculty intelligence agency, which is essentially their responsibility. Unless the United States can renovate its outdated Intelligence immediately, more...