Word: problem
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...conservation problem was brought to the public eye in 1949 by two books, "Our Plundered Planet" by William Vogt and "Road to Survival" by Fairfield Osborn...
Joseph A. Schumpeter has left his classes and his biographers with a problem: "In my youth," he used to say, "my ambition was to be the greatest lover in Vienna, the greatest horseman in Austria, and the greatest economist in the world. In one of those goals I have failed." The ladies who observed his continental charm and erudition and the economists who learned from his will both dispute him as their own; perhaps the horses will lose him in the long run only because they are inarticulate...
...Inter-American Peace Commission finally got off a letter to Trujillo expressing "grave concern" and pointing out that the O.A.S. had machinery to settle quarrels between states. At week's end Trujillo sent a tart rejoinder: "The Dominican Republic, a victim of aggression, is anxious to study the problem with other American states...
...problem becomes especially sharp, Steere argues, when Protestants undertake to cultivate a devotional life-"whether it is the framing of a liturgy for corporate worship, or a set of retreat exercises, or instructions for private prayer." To the free church congregations, for whom sacramentalism or the priest's role is not central, old liturgical molds are as irrelevant as the "Gothic church, which was built to focus all upon the choir and ultimately upon the dramatic stage of the Mass table, where Christ is believed to be literally materialized and made present. But if we admit this irrelevancy...
Many other industries expanded old pension plans or started new ones, adding millions to the cost of doing business in 1949. The changes did not settle the problem; they did sketch its enormous size. At year's end there were still about 11.5 million unionists without pensions, and union labor hoped to straighten this out in 1950. Part of the cost of pensions was a burden that industry could, and should, bear-if labor's demands were reasonable. But many businessmen also argued for a liberalization of the Federal Government's social-security payments, lest the burden...