Word: problem
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Boston area anti-discrimination groups are shifting their attention from the southern problem of lunch counter integration to northern problems of discrimination on college campuses and in housing. Spokesmen for the groups have attributed the shift in activities in part to the achievement of integrated lunch counters in sections of the South...
...problem is that there simply aren't enough good writers to fill up thick magazines (a fact of which I am unconvinced, having read much excellent unpublished material), then editors should include more work by the writers that they have discovered. Mr. Mee's play, for example, is part of a trilogy, and I would have been delighted to have the chance to read the other two plays...
...Nationalists on the islands. To state that these two groups of islands, situated as Fort Sumter was in the middle of the harbors of two major mainland ports, and 120 miles from Formosa, are in "the area of freedom" and must be defended on principle, is to ignore the problem of how or why they are to be defended. To state that they will be defended if they are attacked as part of a campaign against Formosa ignores the fact that it is impossible to determine whether a battle is part of a general attack against the Nationalists, and also...
...varsity sailing team this weekend proved conclusively the problem which plagued it earlier in the season. Instead of losing by their usual slim point margin, the Crimson skippers placed sixth in a nine-school fleet at the Denmark trophy races in New London...
...most talked-about ethical problem in U.S. business is conflict of interest, in which an executive divides his loyalty between his own firm and another. The conflict may take the form of slipping some of his firm's business to a relative or profiting from owning (or owning stock in) a supplier. Last week Chrysler Corp.. which touched off the current conflict-of-interest furor by sacking President William C. Newberg for owning interests in suppliers, announced that an investigation has found its present 36 top executives in the clear. Shaken by the Chrysler case, other corporations...