Word: problem
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...current State of the Union address, the President fails to come to grips with an impressive array of issues: "Peace"--or even "Peace with Justice" is not a genuine foreign policy, and personality can never take the place of policy in dealing with international affairs. The problems of military startegy, subjected to another devastatingly cogent criticism in General Maxwell Taylor's recent book, are not solved by calling weapons of war "sentinels for peace;" and although Eisenhower correctly notes that the inferiority of American space efforts does not mean that the separate military missile program is similarly inadequate, he fails...
...produce a comprehensive study of the population problem would take a single able writer or reporter months, perhaps years of work; to assemble the statistics on the latest results of the explosion would by itself cost him weeks of research in half-a-dozen libraries and Government bureaus. But at a signal from the editors, TIME correspondents in 48 countries began gathering the most up-to-date figures for their areas. And along with the figures came the distilled thinking of some of the world's most eminent students of the problem. From England, Correspondent Herman Nickel reported...
Christopher and edited by Thomas Griffith, analyzes the population problem in 4,000 words. It is the product of an arduous and expensive month for scores of topflight journalists, a method for producing news coverage that is as authoritative as it is timely...
...with something better than we've got," he says, "and believe me, we'll listen to them." Since the Democrats have no solution either, it seems probable that the second session of the 86th Congress will end with scarcely a nick made in the most glaring domestic problem...
...come now to our most pressing national problem. I know all of you are worried about the recent advances made by the Soviet Union. Last week the Russians offered to join our Alliance Club, in flagrant violation of the 1960 Summit Treaty. However, I assure you that our policy, conceived by the top machines in the country, is firmly rooted in our two great principles: the Give-em-an-inch-and-they'll-take-a-foot Doctrine, and the You-can-trust-the-Russians-as-far-as-you-can-throw-them Policy...