Word: problem
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...better for the U.S. not to exert economic pressures and to keep Afghanistan a Soviet problem, Roger Fisher, Williston Professor of Law, said yesterday...
...Rogers ("won't you be mine?"). Ashby had to tell a story about a man who, like his TV, captures attention wherever he goes yet has so small a brain that the narrative cannot unfold wholly from his perspective because he has no single perspective. In solving this problem of a non-entity at the movie's core, Ashby had the help of Peter Sellers' sublime performance as Gardiner...
Most likely, Woodward and Armstrong don't mean everything they say about journalistic blindness. Perhaps they faced a more immediate problem--under contract to write a book, they produced it, realizing that it really contained little in the way of significant revelations. It is easy to praise them for their legwork and interviewing skill, easy to praise their book as interesting, readable and as good an account as exists of the way the Supreme Court operates...