Word: problem
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...officially than in any other country." As if to back up his claim, the Indian government last week announced that the current sterilization campaign is only the beginning. It figures that if 2,150,000 Indians were sterilized each year for the next ten years, India's population problem would be solved...
...artist's problem, as Ernst Ludwig Kirchner saw it, was "how to arrest in a few bold strokes a movement, catching the passing moment." To him, in 1900, the paintings in museums were "anemic, bloodless, lifeless studio daubs," while on the streets of Dresden, "life-noisy, colorful, pulsating," cried to be painted. Kirchner was not alone in his ambition, but of all the German expressionists who sprang up before World War I, few are enjoying quite such a vogue as Kirchner today...
Every step of the repair job was a novel and ticklish problem. Parts of the core that stood in the way were cut up and extricated on the points of slender spikes, all by remote control because of their radioactivity. The deadly inside of the reactor was invisible to direct observation, but long periscopes, manipulated through a 3-in. opening in the blanket around the core, gave a clear view of the melted spots. All these lights, probes and gauges had to be specially designed, and they were tested on an accurate mockup of the reactor before the atom...
...aluminum smelter. Ghana will supply the power by building a $168 million dam on the Volta River. "It could mean to Ghana what TVA and the railroads meant to the U.S., coming all at once," said one Washington official last week over the news. Then he added reflectively: "The problem is making sure the Ghanaians mean all they're saying...
Businessmen are well aware of the problem of quality. Many manufacturers are convinced that "planned obsolescence" has gone too far; that the annual addition of frills and fripperies takes money that could be better used to improve quality. "Certainly in cars," says International Harvester Vice President Mark Keeler. "the cost of restyling is a waste. From a performance standpoint, it contributes nothing." To combat rising labor and material costs, some manufacturers have tried to save by taking a chance on materials that often turn out to be inferior. On the other hand, the very productivity and ingenuity of U.S. industry...