Word: problem
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...greatest problem of all, Rusk believes, will be the continuing conflict with Communism: "I expect the struggle to be dynamic and intense...
Jack Kennedy's most delicate problem was what to do with the liberals he had courted assiduously and yet-because of the closeness of his election-did not want to put in top posts. Governor G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams had his taste buds all set for a Cabinet job and was politically deserving, having "pledged" Michigan's 51 votes at a crucial hour before the Democratic Convention. Kennedy skillfully and carefully built up the importance of the post of Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, announced it early with heavy fanfare, and Soapy gracefully accepted. Liberal Adlai...
Startling as a shout, the silent casbah sprang to life last week, and its outburst basically altered the nature and changed the pace of the long-drawn-out agony known by the bleak title of "the Algerian problem...
...nation's most pressing domestic economic problem-both immediate and long-range-is the rising rate of unemployment. Last week the immediate problem was starkly emphasized when the Labor Department added nine more major industrial areas to those with "substantial" unemployment, bringing the total to 51 of the nation's 150 biggest industrial areas. President Eisenhower was reported "concerned" over the high U.S. unemployment rate, which is now more than 6% of the labor force...
...director of G.M.'s plant in Bienne, Switzerland: "We send currency back to the U.S. instead of draining American reserves. American companies spend as little as they can from their American resources in plant investment. After all, there's also such a thing as a dollar-drain problem inside a company...