Word: problems
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Ernest Marples left grade school to become an apprentice accountant, got into real estate and contracting in London, "and could have retired at 31." Marples is a self-made standout on a Tory Front Bench otherwise filled entirely by university men and Establishment types. He gets down to any problem personally, whether donning a diver's suit to examine the Thames's muddy bottom before his firm drives piles for a London power plant, or cycling through Burgundy to select casks of wine for later bottling in his West End cellar...
...capricious changes in personnel. Explains INRA's day-to-day boss, Captain Antonio Núñez Jiménez, 36, who got the job because he fought hard in Castro's army, and is the author of a Marxist Geography of Cuba: "Accounting is no problem; everybody here is honest." Without benefit of ledgers, INRA has run through $70 million this year...