Word: problems
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rome suburb, Borgata Gordiani, where poverty lives in two-room shacks and walks the dirty, unpaved streets, young Father Giovanni Orlandi confronted the problem raised by the decree. "Many have told me," he said, "that they'd like to break away [from the Communists] but don't dare. The men who come to church are taunted and jeered by young hoodlums. Some of the women are even more fanatical than the men. It's poverty that makes them so, I guess...
Juridical Complications. The declaration raised certain problems. Trouillas could not yet think of seceding from France. "From a juridical point of view," observed sturdy young Davisite Jean TilIon, "the problem is extremely complicated. The case, after all, has never been presented before. If Trouillas wants to send wine to London, for example, does it have to have a French export license? What if France declares...
...that the school's policy of refusing to compromise its high standards has some drawbacks. The cost of operation is high, entrance examinations extremely stiff, the student body relatively small. But Fagundes also knows that, in any case, Kilometer 47 can not do the job alone. A basic problem for the government is to reverse the drift of the population toward the industrial coast. And even when the hinterlands are manned and producing, new transportation systems must be built to get the produce to market...
...University of Alaska will be a harder problem. Since its founding in 1922, it has been battling an annual invasion of summer mosquitoes, sub-zero winter temperatures and a chronic shortage of money. Nevertheless, with Founder Bunnell pushing determinedly ahead, the university has grown until it now has 698 part-and full-time students and a 42-man faculty. It has become a center for Arctic research, a training ground for mining engineers, a clearinghouse of information for farmers and prospectors...
Incalculable Forces. Dr. Schweitzer was equally confident about man's ability to weather his current storms. The great problem of modern times, he said, is "to safeguard the integrity of the individual within the modern state." The great modern conflict: "Personality versus collectivity . . . [They are] fighting everywhere. Collectivism in its various forms has deprived the individual of his individuality...